The season started off with "Homer's Barbershop Quartet" which was chosen as the season premiere because it guest starred George Harrison. The Fox executives had wanted to premiere with "Homer Goes to College" because it was a National Lampoon's Animal House parody, but the writers felt "Homer's Barbershop Quartet" would be a better episode because of Harrison's involvement.[7] Even though the episode aired during the beginning of the fifth season, "Cape Feare" was the last episode written by the original team of writers and guest starred Kelsey Grammer as Sideshow Bob.[2] Compared to previously produced episodes, the episode featured several elements that could be described as cartoonish.[1] This was a result of the staff's careless attitude towards the end of season four as the majority of them were leaving which, combined with the shortness of the episode, led to the creation of the rake sequence, became a memorable moment for this episode.[8] "Cape Feare" and "Rosebud" were both broadcast early in the season and are amongst the series' most acclaimed episodes, both having placed highly on Entertainment Weekly's list of the top 25 episodes.[1] The episode "Deep Space Homer" was the only episode to be written by David Mirkin and was controversial amongst the show's writing staff when the episode was in production. Some of the writers felt that having Homer go into space was too "large" of an idea. Matt Groening felt that the idea was so big that it gave the writers "nowhere to go". As a result, every aspect of the show was worked on to make the concept work. The writers focused more upon the relationship between Homer and his family and Homer's attempts to be a hero.[9] "Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song" was the series' 100th episode. It was chosen because it heavily featured Bart and was promoted as "Bart's biggest prank ever," even though Bart did not actually pull any pranks in the episode;[10] rather, Bart accidentally let his dog loose, eventually resulting in Principal Skinner's firing. Cletus Spuckler and the Rich Texan were the only recurring characters to be introduced this season, first appearing in "Bart Gets an Elephant", and "$pringfield" respectively.[11] Other minor characters who first appeared this season were Luigi and Baby Gerald. Two more episodes, "Bart of Darkness" and "Lisa's Rival" were produced as part of the season five (1F) production run, but both aired the following season.[12]

Like the previous three seasons, The Simpsons aired Thursday at 8:00 pm in the United States and was coupled with the series The Sinbad Show.[19] "Homer's Barbershop Quartet", the season premiere, finished 30th in the ratings with a Nielsen rating of 12.7.[20] "Treehouse of Horror IV", which was broadcast on October 28, was the highest rated episode of the season, finishing 17th with a Nielsen rating of 14.5[21] and finishing ninth in terms of viewers, being seen by approximately 24 million.[22] "Secrets of a Successful Marriage", the season finale, aired during the week of May 16–22, 1994 and finished 43rd with a Nielsen rating of 9.8.[23]

Bart starts receiving threatening letters in the mail and it is soon revealed that they were sent to him by Sideshow Bob. Bob is released from prison, so Bart is placed in the Witness Relocation Program and the Simpson family is moved to Terror Lake. However, Bob follows the Simpsons there and sneaks onto the family's houseboat and tries to kill Bart. Cornered, Bart asks Bob to sing the entire score of H.M.S. Pinafore as a last request. Bob does so, and during his performance the boat drifts through Springfield and Bob is caught.

After failing a test at the nuclear plant, Homer's lack of a college degree is revealed and he is sent back to pass a nuclear physics class. Homer, having seen too many bad National Lampoon's Animal House knock-off movies, goofs off, so he is sent to a group of boys for tutoring. The boys, who are stereotypical nerds, try to help Homer, but he instead tries to help them party and decides to pull a prank on another college. They steal Springfield A&M's mascot, but his friends are caught and expelled. Homer invites them to live with him, but his family soon become angered by their new housemates, so Homer decides to try to help them get back into college. Consequentially, he fails his final exam and is convinced by Marge to return to college for another year.[28]

After a disastrous birthday party, Mr. Burns pines for his long-lost childhood toy, a teddy bear named Bobo. The bear ends up in the hands of Maggie and when Homer discovers this, he tries to use the bear to get a large reward from Burns. When Burns agrees, Homer tries to hand the bear over, but is stopped by Maggie. Homer, seeing that Maggie has become attached to the bear, decides not to give it back to Mr. Burns, who promises that Homer will regret the decision. Mr. Burns later returns and talks to Maggie and she eventually gives it back to him.Guest star: The Ramones.[30]

In a parody of Night Gallery, Bart tells three scary stories based on paintings:The Devil and Homer Simpson – Homer sells his soul to the Devil (Ned Flanders) for a doughnut.Terror at 5½ Feet – While riding the bus to school, Bart discovers that there is a Gremlin on the side of the bus.Bart Simpson's Dracula – The Simpsons are invited to a dinner with Mr. Burns, where Bart and Lisa discover that Mr. Burns is a vampire.Guest star: Frank Welker and Phil Hartman.[32]

Marge and neighbor Ruth Powers have a girls' night. Meanwhile, Homer tries to have fun without Marge and Lionel Hutz is hired as Bart, Lisa, and Maggie's babysitter. Homer hitches a ride home with Chief Wiggum, who is following behind Marge and Ruth and decides to pull them over. However, Ruth speeds her car up and reveals to Marge that she stole it from her ex-husband. Marge decides to stay with Ruth, but eventually the police catch up with them and the charges are dismissed.Guest star: George Fenneman, Pamela Reed and Phil Hartman.[34]

Marge realizes that she is no fun because of her constant nagging and seeks help from self-help guru Brad Goodman, who then uses Bart's irreverent attitude as a new example of how people should behave. The entire town of Springfield begins to act like Bart, who at first enjoys things but begins to feel that his role as a troublemaker is usurped. During the inaugural "Do what you feel" festival, several things go wrong and the town decides to stop acting like Bart.Guest star: James Brown, Albert Brooks and Phil Hartman.[36]

Bart and Milhouse find $20.00 on the street and buy a Squishee made entirely of syrup. After a night of bingeing and carousing, Bart wakes up to discover that he has joined a Boy Scouts-esque troupe called "The Junior Campers". Bart initially hates the group, then enjoys it, until Homer agrees to participate in their river-rafting trip. In a boat with Ned and Rod Flanders, Homer loses their map and the boat gets lost in the ocean. After being stuck out at sea for several days, they discover an oil rig with a Krusty Burger and are saved. At the end of the episode the rest of the campers including Ernest are attacked by an unknown monster at an abandoned campsite.Guest star: Ernest Borgnine.[38]

Mr. Burns hires a female worker named Mindy Simmons in accordance with government policy and Homer is worried that his crush on her will ruin his marriage with Marge. Both Mindy and Homer have feelings for each other, but in the end Homer decides not to cheat on Marge. Meanwhile, Bart becomes a nerd after doctors find several things physically wrong with him and apply treatments that make him look like a nerd.Guest star: Michelle Pfeiffer, Werner Klemperer and Phil Hartman.[40]

After the local economy stalls, everyone in town votes for gambling to be legalized, prompting Mr. Burns to open a casino. Homer becomes a blackjack dealer, and Marge becomes so addicted to gambling that she forgets about her family life. Meanwhile, Bart opens up his own casino after being kicked out of Mr. Burns's and Lisa struggles to have her costume done for a school pageant. Homer agrees to help her, but does a terrible job, so he decides to go to the casino to get Marge back.Guest star: Robert Goulet and Gerry Cooney.[42]

A crime wave hits Springfield, caused by the elusive cat burglar and Lisa's saxophone is stolen, so Homer agrees to try to get it back. The police are ineffective, so Flanders creates a neighborhood watch group, which Homer takes charge of. However, Homer's incompetence causes the vigilante group to commit more crimes than it prevents, and they are unsuccessful in catching the cat burglar. With the help of Grampa, Homer discovers that the burglar is a charming senior named Malloy. Malloy is arrested, but he tricks the citizens of Springfield into thinking he has hidden millions of dollars and escapes during the ensuing rush to find the money.Guest star: Sam Neill.[44]

After sneaking away from a school trip to a box factory, Bart sneaks onto the set of the Krusty the Clown show. He gets a job as Krusty's production assistant and soon becomes sick of the job. One day, he is close to quitting, but Krusty runs up and says he needs to use Bart in a sketch. Bart becomes an accidental star when he says, "I didn't do it" during the botched sketch. He becomes famous but soon becomes tired of being known for one line. Marge convinces him that the main thing is to make people happy, so Bart decides to continue, but the audience soon becomes tired of Bart's act and forget about him.Guest star: Conan O'Brien.[46]

After twice getting food poisoning from expired food sold at the Kwik-E-Mart, Homer teams up with Kent Brockman to report Apu. Apu is fired from his job and comes to stay with the Simpsons, and he is replaced by actor James Woods. Homer resolves to help Apu get his old job back, and the two travel to India to talk to the owner of the Kwik-E-Mart, but are unsuccessful. Apu decides to visit his old Kwik-E-Mart and saves James Woods' life. Woods is so grateful that he helps Apu get re-hired.Guest star: James Woods.[48]

Lisa protests against the phrases on her new Talking Malibu Stacy doll, which she finds demeaning to women. She tracks down the reclusive creator Stacy to make a more politically correct doll. Meanwhile, Grampa is worried that he is getting old, so he takes a job at Krusty Burger. Lisa and Stacy create "Lisa Lionheart" which gets a lot of positive buzz, but is a flop when the Malibu Stacy executives release a new doll that comes with a hat.Guest star: Kathleen Turner.[50]

NASA decides that they need to hire average joes in order to get higher television ratings. They recruit Homer and Barney to train to be the first average American in space. Homer, who wants to be respected, is the winner by default, and goes into space with Buzz Aldrin. While there, he causes a lot of havoc and eventually breaks the handle on the space shuttle's hatch. Homer inadvertently seals the door shut with an inanimate carbon rod, and the shuttle returns to Earth. The rod is hailed as a hero, but Homer gains the respect of Aldrin and his family.Guest star: Buzz Aldrin and James Taylor.[52]

Homer begins to like Flanders after being invited to a football game. However, Homer's constant presence around Flanders and his family causes Ned to feel hate for Homer. One day while trying to drive away from Homer, Flanders is arrested and charged with drunk driving. Flanders begins to lose the respect of the church congregation until Homer sticks up for him. Flanders thanks Homer and the two remain friends.[54]

While stuck cleaning the house, Bart wins a radio contest and chooses a gag prize, an elephant, instead of the real prize, $10,000 cash. The radio station eventually gets Bart his elephant, which is named Stampy. When taking care of Stampy gets too expensive Homer decides to sell him to an ivory dealer rather than turn him over to a non-profit Animal Refuge. Bart tries to run away with Stampy, but the elephant escapes. They track him down, and Homer agrees to give him to the Animal Refuge.[11]

Mr. Burns has a near-death experience which prompts him to find an heir to inherit his wealth after he dies. Bart is rejected, but Burns soon decides to choose him after seeing that Bart is "a creature of pure malevolence". Marge convinces Bart to go spend some time with Burns, and soon becomes more disruptive than normal to his own family and decides to go live with Mr. Burns. Bart eventually starts to miss his family, but Burns manipulates him into staying. Burns tries to have Bart prove his loyalty by firing Homer, but Bart instead decides to go back to living with his family.Guest star: Phil Hartman.[57]

Bart accidentally gets Principal Skinner fired after he brings Santa's Little Helper to school for show and tell. Bart feels guilty for what he did, and befriends Skinner. Meanwhile, Ned Flanders is hired as principal and the school goes to pot. Bart decides that while he enjoys having Skinner as a friend, he needs him as an enemy, but discovers that he returned to the Army to be a sergeant. Bart convinces Skinner to return and they get Flanders fired so that Skinner can get his old job back.Guest star: Frank Welker.[59]

Bart plays hooky from school and ends up at the birthday party of Freddy Quimby, the Mayor's nephew, where Freddy is accused of assaulting a waiter. Bart knows the truth, but would have to admit that he was playing hooky if he testifies. Meanwhile, Homer is chosen for jury duty in the assault case against Freddy Quimby and takes advantage of being sequestered in a hotel.Guest star: Phil Hartman.[61]

While attending Maggie's first birthday party, Grampa falls for Marge's mother Jacqueline. Grampa and Jacqueline start dating, but he is soon pushed aside in favor of Mr. Burns. Mr. Burns and Jacqueline are soon engaged to be married, much to the chagrin of Marge and Smithers. Grampa crashes the wedding and tries to get Jacqueline back, but she decides that she does not want to be married. Meanwhile, Bart steals Homer's credit card to buy a piece of Itchy and Scratchy memorabilia that turns out to be a rip-off.Guest star: Phil Hartman.[62]

Tired of being called "slow," Homer signs up to teach a class on keeping a successful marriage at a learning annex. He is an unsuccessful teacher and finds that the only way he can keep the class interested is to tell racy secrets about Marge and their bedroom antics. Marge soon gets fed up with Homer telling their secrets and kicks him out. Homer starts living in Bart's treehouse and becomes so lost without Marge that he begs her to take him back, and she eventually agrees.Guest star: Phil Hartman.[64]

The menu for the first disc of The Complete Fifth Season; the new format of menus has since been used in the rest of the released season box sets

The DVD boxset for season five was released by 20th Century Fox in the United States and Canada on December 21, 2004, ten years after it had completed broadcast on television. As well as every episode from the season, the DVD release features bonus material including deleted scenes, animatics, and commentaries for every episode. The menus are a different format than the previous seasons, and that format would be used in every set after.[66]

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Fox Broadcasting Company
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The Fox Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcast television network that is owned by the Fox Entertainment Group subsidiary of 21st Century Fox. It is the third largest major network in the world based on total revenues, assets. Launched on October 9,1986 as a competitor to the Big Three television networks, Fox and its affiliated companies operate many entertainment channels in international markets, although these do not necessarily air the same programming as the U. S. network. Most viewers in Canada have access to at least one U. S, the network is named after sister company 20th Century Fox, and indirectly for producer William Fox, who founded one of the movie studios predecessors, Fox Film. Fox is a member of the North American Broadcasters Association and the National Association of Broadcasters, 20th Century Fox had been involved in television production as early as the 1950s, producing several syndicated programs. Following the demise of the DuMont Television Network in August of that year after it became mired in financial problems. 20th Century Fox would also produce original content for the NTA network, KTTV in Los Angeles, KRIV in Houston, WFLD-TV in Chicago, and KRLD-TV in Dallas. In October 1985, 20th Century Fox announced its intentions to form a television network that would compete with ABC, CBS. The plans were to use the combination of the Fox studios, organizational plans for the network were held off until the Metromedia acquisitions cleared regulatory hurdles. Then, in December 1985, Rupert Murdoch agreed to pay $325 million to acquire the remaining equity in TCF Holdings from his original partner, Marvin Davis. These first six stations, then broadcasting to a reach of 22% of the nations households. Except for KDAF, all of the original owned-and-operated stations are part of the Fox network today. Like the core O&O group, Foxs affiliate body consisted of independent stations. The Fox Broadcasting Company launched at 11,00 p. m. Eastern and its inaugural program was a late-night talk show, The Late Show, which was hosted by comedian Joan Rivers. By early 1987, Rivers quit The Late Show after disagreements with the network over the creative direction. The network expanded its programming into prime time on April 5,1987, with Children and the sketch comedy series The Tracey Ullman Show. Fox added one new show per week over the several weeks, with the drama 21 Jump Street. On July 11, the network rolled out its Saturday night schedule with the premiere of the drama series Werewolf

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The Simpsons (season 4)
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The Simpsons fourth season originally aired on the Fox network between September 24,1992 and May 13,1993, beginning with Kamp Krusty. The showrunners for the production season were Al Jean and Mike Reiss. The aired season contained two episodes which were episodes from season three, which Jean and Reiss also ran. Following the end of the production of the season, Jean, Reiss, the season was nominated for two Primetime Emmy Awards and Dan Castellaneta would win one for his performance as Homer in Mr. Plow. The fourth season was released on DVD in Region 1 on June 15,2004, Region 2 on August 2,2004, the season was executive produced by Al Jean and Mike Reiss, who had also run the previous season. Several of the original writers who had been with the show since the first season left following the completion of the seasons production run. Cape Feare, which was the episode to be produced by the original team. Jay Kogen, Wallace Wolodarsky and Jeff Martin wrote their final episodes for the four production run. David M. Stern and Jon Vitti also left but returned to write episodes for later seasons. Reiss and Jean left to produce their own series, The Critic, but later returned to several more The Simpsons episodes. Rich Moore, one of the original directors, also left to work on The Critic. George Meyer and John Swartzwelder stayed on, while Conan OBrien, Frank Mula and future show runners Bill Oakley, one-time writers for the season include Adam I. Lapidus and the team of Gary Apple and Michael Carrington, although Carrington later returned to voice characters in Simpson Tide, simon was involved in a series of creative disputes with the shows creator Matt Groening, producer James L. Brooks and production company Gracie Films. Simon commented that he wasnt enjoying it anymore, and that any show Ive ever worked on, it turns me into a monster. Before leaving, he negotiated a deal that saw him receive a share of the shows every year. This seasons production run was the first to be animated by Film Roman, Klasky Csupo co-founder Gábor Csupó had been asked if they could bring in their own producer, but declined, stating they wanted to tell me how to run my business. Simon commented that, There wont be any change in the quality or look of the show, were not going to compromise the quality of the show, and key creative personnel will continue on the show. A Streetcar Named Marge and Kamp Krusty were holdovers from the previous season, Brooks suggested that the script for Kamp Krusty be expanded and produced as a feature-length theatrically released film

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The Simpsons (season 6)
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The Simpsons sixth season originally aired on the Fox network between September 4,1994, and May 21,1995, and consists of 25 episodes. The Simpsons is a series about a working class family, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa. The show is set in the city of Springfield, and lampoons American culture, society, television. The showrunner for the production season was David Mirkin who executive-produced 23 episodes. Former showrunners Al Jean and Mike Reiss produced the two, they produced the two episodes with the staff of The Critic, the show they left The Simpsons to create. This was done in order to some of the stress The Simpsons writing staff endured. Fox moved The Simpsons back to its original Sunday night time and it has remained in this slot ever since. The sixth season won one Primetime Emmy Award, and received three additional nominations and it also won the Annie Award for Best Animated Television Production. The Complete Sixth Season DVD was released in the United States on August 16,2005, September 28,2005, in Australia, the set featured a plastic clam-shell Homer-head design and received many complaints. David Mirkin served as showrunner and executive producer for season six, steven Dean Moore and Swinton O. Scott III received their first directing credit. Other credited writers included Greg Daniels, Dan McGrath, Bill Oakley, John Swartzwelder, Jon Vitti, other directors included Bob Anderson, Wes Archer, Susie Dietter, Mark Kirkland, Jeffrey Lynch, Jim Reardon and David Silverman. The main cast consisted of Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith, Hank Azaria, other cast members included Doris Grau, Pamela Hayden, Tress MacNeille, Maggie Roswell, Russi Taylor and Marcia Wallace. Guest stars included Anne Bancroft, Mel Brooks, Kelsey Grammer, Phil Hartman, Larry King, Susan Sarandon, Patrick Stewart, Meryl Streep and Winona Ryder. The seasons first two episodes, Bart of Darkness and Lisas Rival, were held over from the previous season, the season finale Who Shot Mr. Burns. Came from Groening, who had wanted to do an episode in which Mr. Burns was shot, the writers decided to write the episode in two parts with a mystery that could be used in a contest. It was important for them to design a mystery that had clues, took advantage of freeze frame technology, during the production of the season, Groening and Brooks pitched a live-action spin-off series centered in Krusty the Clown entitled Krusty. Groening and Michael Weithorn wrote an episode where Krusty moved to Los Angeles. A recurring joke throughout the script was that Krusty lived in a house on stilts which were continuously being gnawed by beavers

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List of The Simpsons episodes
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The Simpsons is an American animated television sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company. It is a depiction of a middle class American lifestyle epitomized by its eponymous family, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa. The show is set in the town of Springfield, and lampoons American culture, society. The family was conceived by Groening shortly before a pitch for a series of animated shorts with producer James L. Brooks, Groening created a dysfunctional family and named the characters after members of his own family, substituting Bart for his own name. The shorts became a part of the Fox series The Tracey Ullman Show on April 19,1987, after a three-season run, the sketch was developed into a half-hour prime-time show that was an early hit for Fox. Since its debut on December 17,1989, The Simpsons has broadcast 615 episodes, the show holds several American television longevity records. It is the longest-running prime-time animated series and longest-running sitcom in the United States, in February 2012, The Simpsons reached its 500th episode in the twenty-third season. With its twenty-first season, the series surpassed Gunsmoke in seasons to claim the spot as the longest-running American prime-time scripted television series, however, Gunsmokes episode count of 635 episodes surpasses The Simpsons. Episodes of The Simpsons have won dozens of awards, including 31 Emmy Awards,30 Annie Awards, the Simpsons Movie, a feature-length film, was released in theaters worldwide on July 26 and 27,2007 and grossed US$526.2 million worldwide. The first seventeen seasons are available on DVD in regions 1,2, on April 8,2015, showrunner Al Jean announced that there will be no more DVD or Blu-ray releases, shifting focus to digital distribution. On November 4,2016, The Simpsons was renewed for seasons 29 and 30 and it reached its 600th episode on October 16,2016, in its twenty eighth season. With its first season, The Simpsons became the Fox networks first series to rank among the top thirty highest rated shows of a television season. Due to this success, Fox decided to switch The Simpsons timeslot in hopes that it would result in ratings for the shows that would air after it. The series moved from 8,00 p. m. on Sunday nights to the time on Thursdays, where it competed with The Cosby Show. Many of the producers were against the move, as The Simpsons had been in the top ten while airing on Sunday, ratings wise, new episodes of The Cosby Show beat The Simpsons every time during the second season and The Simpsons eventually fell out of the top ten. At the end of the season Cosby averaged as the fifth highest rated show on television, the show continued in its Thursday timeslot until the sixth season, when, in 1994, it reverted to its original slot on Sunday. It has remained ever since. Key The ratings for The Simpsons are split into two tables, Season 1–11 are ranked by households watching the series, Season 12–26 are ranked by actual viewers watching the series

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The Simpsons
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The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series is a depiction of working-class life epitomized by the Simpson family, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa. The show is set in the town of Springfield and parodies American culture, society, television. The family was conceived by Groening shortly before a solicitation for a series of animated shorts with producer James L. Brooks, Groening created a dysfunctional family and named the characters after members of his own family, substituting Bart for his own name. The shorts became a part of The Tracey Ullman Show on April 19,1987. After a three-season run, the sketch was developed into a prime time show and became an early hit for Fox. Since its debut on December 17,1989,615 episodes of The Simpsons have been broadcast and its 28th season began on September 25,2016. It is the longest-running American sitcom and the longest-running American animated program, the Simpsons Movie, a feature-length film, was released in theaters worldwide on July 27,2007, and grossed over $527 million. On May 4,2015, the series was renewed for seasons 27 and 28, on November 4,2016, the series was renewed for seasons 29 and 30, consisting of 22 episodes each. The Simpsons received widespread critical acclaim throughout its first nine or ten seasons, Time named it the 20th centurys best television series, and Erik Adams of The A. V. Club named it televisions crowning achievement regardless of format, on January 14,2000, the Simpson family was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. It has won dozens of awards since it debuted as a series, including 31 Primetime Emmy Awards,30 Annie Awards, Homers exclamatory catchphrase Doh. has been adopted into the English language, while The Simpsons has influenced many adult-oriented animated sitcoms. Despite this, the show has also criticized for what many perceive as a decline in quality over the years. The Simpsons are a family who live in a fictional Middle American town of Springfield, Homer, the father, works as a safety inspector at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant, a position at odds with his careless, buffoonish personality. He is married to Marge Simpson, a stereotypical American housewife, although the family is dysfunctional, many episodes examine their relationships and bonds with each other and they are often shown to care about one another. The family owns a dog, Santas Little Helper, and a cat, Snowball V, renamed Snowball II in I, both pets have had starring roles in several episodes. The show includes an array of supporting characters, co-workers, teachers, family friends, extended relatives, townspeople. The creators originally intended many of these characters as jokes or for fulfilling needed functions in the town

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David Mirkin
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David Mirkin is an American feature film and television director, writer and producer. Mirkin grew up in Philadelphia and intended to become an electrical engineer, after graduating, he became a stand-up comedian, and then moved into television writing. He wrote for the sitcoms Threes Company, Its Garry Shandlings Show and The Larry Sanders Show, after an unsuccessful attempt to remake the British series The Young Ones, Mirkin created Get a Life in 1990. The series starred comedian Chris Elliott and ran for two seasons, despite a lack of support from many Fox network executives, who disliked the shows dark and he moved on to create the sketch show The Edge starring his then-partner, actress Julie Brown. Mirkin left The Edge during its run and became the producer and showrunner of The Simpsons for its fifth and sixth seasons. He won four Primetime Emmy Awards and a Peabody Award for his work on The Simpsons, Mirkin stood down as showrunner after season six, but produced several subsequent episodes, co-wrote The Simpsons Movie and in 2013 remains on the show as a consultant. Mirkin has also moved into film direction, he directed the films Romy and Micheles High School Reunion. Mirkin was born and raised in Philadelphia and graduated from Northeast High School in 1973 and his father was a computer engineer until his death in 1960. Mirkins older brother Gary worked as an engineer for the Philadelphia NBC affiliate, KYW-TV. Throughout his childhood, Mirkin had an interest in film, Mirkin has described himself as a nerd and was often in trouble as a child because he was in another world. At high school, he felt the teaching was too slow and was allowed by his teachers to skip class two to three days a week, Mirkin intended to pursue a career in electrical engineering, which he saw as a more stable employment opportunity than writing or film making. He took a course at Philadelphias Drexel University which offered six months of teaching followed by an internship at the National Aeronautics Federal Experimental Center. Mirkin found the experience to be monotonous and unenjoyable and chose to abandon this career path. He decided that no money doing something I loved was going to be better than making a good living doing something I didnt, so took an enormous chance on show business. He attended film school at Loyola Marymount University, and graduated in 1978, Mirkin lists Woody Allen and James L. Brooks as his writing inspirations and Stanley Kubrick and the work of the comedy group Monty Python as developing his dark sense of humor. He considers Mike Nicholss film The Graduate to be inspired him to enter directing. Mirkin started out as a comedian in 1982 and performed across the United States, including at The Comedy Store, where he became a regular. The first joke he used in his routine was, Is it just me or has everybody been coughing up blood lately, Mirkin considers the joke to be an insight into the way

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Al Jean
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Alfred Ernest Al Jean III is an American screenwriter and producer. Jean is well known for his work on The Simpsons and he was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan and graduated from Harvard University in 1981. Jean began his career in the 1980s with fellow Harvard alum Mike Reiss. Together, they worked as writers and producers on television such as The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, ALF. Jean was offered a job as a writer on the animated sitcom The Simpsons in 1989, alongside Reiss, and together they became the first members of the original writing staff of the show. They served as showrunners during the third and fourth seasons, though they left The Simpsons after season four to create The Critic. It was first broadcast on ABC in January 1994 and was received by critics. Jean returned full-time to The Simpsons during the tenth season and he became showrunner again with the start of the thirteenth season in 2001, without Reiss, and has held that position since. Jean was also one of the writers and producers who worked on The Simpsons Movie, Al Jean was born Alfred Ernest Jean III on January 9,1961. He was born and raised in Farmington Hills, Michigan, graduated from Farmington Hills Harrison High School, Jean arrived at Harvard University when he was sixteen years old and graduated in 1981 with a bachelors degree in mathematics. Daryl Libow, one of Jeans freshman roommates, said he was a math whiz when he arrived at Harvard but soon blossomed and found his comedic feet. In Holworthy Hall at Harvard, Jean met fellow freshman Mike Reiss, they befriended one another, jeff Martin, another writer for the Lampoon, said they definitely loomed large around the magazine. They were very funny guys and unusually polished comedy writers for that age and we were never surprised that they went on to success. Jean has also stated that the duo spent most of their time at the Lampoon and he eventually became vice-president of the publication. Jean currently lives in Los Angeles, California with his wife, the two were wed in Enniskerry, Ireland in 2002. The humor magazine National Lampoon hired Jean and Reiss after they graduated in 1981, during the 1980s, the duo began collaborating on various television material. During this period worked as writers and producers on television shows such as The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, ALF, Sledge Hammer. In 1989, Jean was offered a job as a writer on the animated sitcom The Simpsons, a show created by Matt Groening, James L. Brooks, and Sam Simon that continues to air today

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Mike Reiss
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Michael Mike L. Reiss is an American television comedy writer. He served as a show-runner, writer and producer for the animated series The Simpsons and he created and wrote the webtoon Queer Duck and has also worked on screenplays including, Ice Age, Dawn of the Dinosaurs, The Simpsons Movie and My Life in Ruins. Reiss was born to a Jewish family in Bristol, Connecticut, the middle child of five, his mother was a local journalist and his father was a doctor. He attended Memorial Boulevard Public School, Thomas Patterson School and Bristol Eastern High School and has stated that he felt like an outsider in these places, I feel the education I got there was distant and useless and uncaring. I feel they sort of squandered my youth and my father’s savings, Reiss studied English, but disliked the course and was rejected from a creative writing class. Reiss focused his attention on comedy, performing in talent shows, in Holworthy Hall at Harvard, Reiss met fellow freshman Al Jean, they befriended one another and collaborated their writing efforts for the humor publication Harvard Lampoon. Reiss became co-president of the Harvard Lampoon, alongside Jon Vitti, jeff Martin, another writer for the Lampoon, said Reiss and Jean definitely loomed large around the magazine. They were very funny guys and unusually polished comedy writers for that age and we were never surprised that they went on to success. Jean has also stated that the duo spent most of their time at the Lampoon, the humor magazine National Lampoon, hired Jean and Reiss after they graduated in 1981. In the 1980s, the duo began collaborating on television projects. During this period Reiss and Jean worked as writers and producers on television such as The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, ALF, Sledge Hammer. In 1989, Reiss was hired along with Jean as the first members of the writing staff of the Fox network animated series The Simpsons. He worked on the thirteen episodes of the shows first season and they became executive producers and show runners of The Simpsons at the start of the third season. A show runner has the responsibility of all the processes that an episode goes through before completion, including the writing, the animation, the voice acting. The first episode Jean and Reiss produced was Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington and they were so pressured that they did six to seven rewrites of the script to make it funnier. Jean said one reason for doing all these rewrites is because I kept thinking Its not good enough, Reiss added that we were definitely scared. We had never run anything before, and they dumped us on this, Jean and Reiss served as show runners until the end of the fourth season. Since the show had already established itself in the first two seasons, they were able to give it more depth during their tenure, Jean believes this is one of the reasons that many fans regard season three and four as the best seasons of The Simpsons

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Cape Feare
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Cape Feare is the second episode in the fifth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on October 7,1993, and has since been featured on DVD and VHS releases. Written by Jon Vitti and directed by Rich Moore, Cape Feare features the return of guest star Kelsey Grammer as Sideshow Bob, Cape Feare is a spoof of the 1962 film Cape Fear and its 1991 remake, and alludes to other horror films such as Psycho. The episode was pitched by Wallace Wolodarsky, who wanted to parody Cape Fear, originally produced for the fourth season, it was held over to the fifth and was therefore the last episode produced by the shows original writers, most of whom subsequently left. The production crew found it difficult to stretch Cape Feare to the duration of half an hour. In one such sequence, Sideshow Bob continually steps on rakes, the handles of which hit him in the face. The episode is considered one of the best of the entire series. After receiving numerous death threats in the mail, Bart becomes paranoid and it is revealed that the writer is his enemy, Sideshow Bob, who is incarcerated in Springfield State Prison. The next day, Sideshow Bobs parole hearing is held, the board is easily convinced that Sideshow Bob is no longer a threat. When the Simpson family goes to the cinema, Sideshow Bob sits in front of them, the Simpsons then realize that it was him who sent the letters, and Marge angrily tells him to stay away from Bart. The Simpsons opt for the Witness Relocation Program and relocate to Terror Lake, changing their surname to Thompson, however, unknown to the family as they drive cross-country to their new home, Sideshow Bob has strapped himself to the underside of the car. During the night, Sideshow Bob reaches the houseboat and cuts it loose from the dock, Bob then ties up Homer, Marge, Lisa, and Maggie, to ensure they will not interfere with his plan. Bob enters Barts room, ready to kill him, Bart flees out the window and tries to escape, but he cannot jump off the boat. As a last request, he has an idea, he compliments Sideshow Bob on his beautiful voice, pinafore, to stall for time as the houseboat floats to Springfield. After the performance, Bob advances on Bart again, but the boat runs aground, and Sideshow Bob is arrested, Sideshow Bob is a recurring character on The Simpsons. Executive producer Al Jean has compared Bobs character to that of Wile E. Coyote, the scene in which Bob is stomped on by multiple elephants and bounced right back up is a reference to the Wile E. Coyote character. In Planet Simpson, author Chris Turner writes that Bob is built into a snob and conservative Republican so that the writers can continually hit him with a rake. He represents high culture while Krusty, one of his archenemies, represents low culture, in the book Leaving Springfield, David L. G

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Rosebud (The Simpsons)
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Rosebud is the fourth episode of The Simpsons fifth season. It first aired on the Fox network in the United States on October 21,1993, the episode begins by showing how on the eve of his birthday, Mr. Burns starts to miss his childhood teddy bear Bobo. The bear ends up in the hands of Maggie Simpson and Burns does everything in his power to get Bobo returned to him. Rosebud was written by John Swartzwelder and was the first episode to be produced by David Mirkin. Directed by Wes Archer, supervising director David Silverman describes the episode as one of the more challenging ones to direct, the Ramones guest star in the episode as themselves. The episode is largely a parody of the 1941 film Citizen Kane, the episode also contains references to The Wizard of Oz, Planet of the Apes, actor George Burns, Charles Lindbergh, and Adolf Hitler. Critical reaction to Rosebud was largely positive and in 2003 Entertainment Weekly placed the episode in place on their list of the 25 best episodes of The Simpsons. Smithers finds Mr. Burns having a nightmare in which he constantly murmurs the name Bobo. In a flashback, it is revealed that as a child, Burns lived with his family and cherished his teddy bear Bobo, Burns reveals to Smithers that he misses his cherished bear Bobo and desperately wants it back but has no idea where it is. Another flashback reveals Bobos history, after Burns leaves it behind, the bear eventually finds its way to Charles Lindbergh, who tosses the bear into a crowd, in 1945, Hitler blames Bobo for losing World War II and tosses him away. Bobo is seen again in 1957 on board the USS Nautilus headed for the North Pole, Bobo becomes encased in a block of ice until picked up by an ice-gathering expedition in 1993. The bag of ice with Bobo in it is sent to the Kwik-E-Mart in Springfield, bart buys the bag of ice, finds Bobo inside and gives it to Maggie to play with. Mr. Burns starts looking for his bear, and Homer finally realizes that Maggies new toy is Bobo, Homer negotiates with Burns and agrees to give it back in exchange for a million dollars and three Hawaiian islands. The good ones, not the leper ones, however, when Maggie refuses to give Bobo up, Homer decides to stick up for his daughter and sends Burns away. Mr. Burns is outraged and promises vengeance on Homer unless he gets his teddy bear back, after many failed attempts to steal the teddy bear, in desperation, Burns has Smithers literally beg Homer for the bear. Homer tells Burns that it is Maggies now, and she is the one that can return it. Burns decides to talk to Maggie and becomes depressed and asks Maggie to look after his bear. Maggie, in an act of pity, lets the desperate Burns have the bear, Rosebud was written by John Swartzwelder and was the first episode to be executive produced and run by David Mirkin

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Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song
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Sweet Seymour Skinners Baadasssss Song is the 19th episode of The Simpsons fifth season. The 100th episode of the overall, it originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on April 28,1994. In the episode, Superintendent Chalmers fires Principal Seymour Skinner after a disaster at the school, Bart Simpson, feeling partially responsible for Skinners firing, tries to help his old principal get his job back. The episode was written by Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein, and it was selected for release in a 1999 video collection of selected episodes called The Simpsons, Greatest Hits. The episode features references to films such as Alien and Full Metal Jacket. The title is a parody of the film Sweet Sweetbacks Baadasssss Song, since airing, the episode has received mostly positive reviews from television critics. It acquired a Nielsen rating of 12.7, and was the show on the Fox network the week it aired. After dismissing the idea of taking Simpson family home videos and a geode, Bart brings Santas Little Helper to school for show and tell. Even though his show-and-tell presentation is well received by the class, groundskeeper Willie is sent after the dog and catches it, but he chooses the wrong vent to exit and the fire department is called in to rescue him. As the firemen are attempting to rescue Willie, an outraged Superintendent Chalmers appears and fires Principal Skinner, much to Barts shock. Chalmers hires Ned Flanders as the new principal of Springfield Elementary School, but when Flanders is hesitant to discipline the children, they run amok, meanwhile, Bart befriends the now jobless Skinner, as they laugh about anecdotes of Flanderss failure that Bart relates. Feeling lonely, Skinner eventually decides to re-enlist in the United States Army, instead of rejoicing in the discipline-less school, Bart feels guilty about causing Skinners dismissal. In an effort to get Skinner his job back, Bart attempts to expose Flanders poor leadership to Chalmers, despite the state of chaos at the school, Chalmers is not concerned. However, upon hearing Flanders utter a brief mention of God over the intercom, Skinner is soon re-hired as principal. Bart and Skinner share an amicable chat about their typically antagonistic relationship, however, as they turn from each other, it is revealed Bart has taped a Kick Me sign on Skinners back, and Skinner has taped a Teach Me sign on Bart. The two chuckle to themselves as they walk away, Sweet Seymour Skinners Baadasssss Song was written by Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein, and directed by Bob Anderson. Much of Principal Skinners behavior in the episode is based on teachers Oakley and Weinstein had in school who, according to Oakley, were sad. It was selected to air as the 100th episode of the show because the staff wanted that particular episode to focus on Bart, baby Gerald, Luigi Risotto, Assistant Superintendent Leopold, and Flanders parents make their first appearances on the show in this episode

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Annie Award
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The Annie Award is an American award for accomplishments in animation. The Annies have been presented by the Los Angeles branch of the International Animated Film Association, originally designed to celebrate lifetime or career contributions to animation, since 1992 it has given awards to individual films. Memberships in the ASIFA-Hollywood consist of three categories, General Member, Patron and Student Member. Joining ASIFA-Hollywood is open to professionals, students and fans of animation, selected professional members are permitted to vote for the Annie. The 43rd Annie Awards ceremony took place on February 6,2016, in 1972, June Foray conceived the idea that there should be awards for animation as there were no awards for the field. With the approval of ASIFA-Hollywood president Nick Bosustow, Annie Awards ceremony was organized, the first ceremony was held at the banquet room of Sportsmens Lodge in Ventura Boulevard in Studio City, Los Angeles, California. Max Fleischer and Dave Fleischer were the first to be honored by the first Annie Awards for creating the characters Betty Boop, Popeye and Olive Oyl, according to Foray, her husband Hobart Donavan suggested that the awards be called Annie since the awards are for excellence in animation. The first Annie Award trophy was given out in the awards ceremony to Walter Lantz. The trophy was a brass prize shaped like a zoetrope and was out of wood. The next year, Tom Woodward came up with the current design, official rules for the Annie Awards state that voting members must view all nominated achievements in their entirety before casting their ballot for a winner. Members are directed to view the films on a secure website. When the online ballot launched on January 15, the two independent films were not included for voters to judge, ASIFA acknowledged this error over a week later, at which point all the votes were reportedly thrown out and the balloting system was reset. Voters were instructed to return and re-vote the category, ASIFA again took several days to repair the ballot, but this time allowed voting to continue. By the time the ballot officially closed on February 1, Everything Will Be OK was only available to voters for less than 24 hours of the entire 18-day voting period. Even though ASIFA apologized to Don Hertzfeldt, they took no action and carried on with the event. In 2009, DreamWorks Kung Fu Panda swept the Annie Awards in a defeat against the eventual Oscar-winner WALL-E. In an Oscar prediction article, New York Times writer David Carr noted and that was an inside job, full of backstage politics you don’t want to know about. The unfortunate reality is that it feels like the elections were rigged - they were bought, in 2010, Walt Disney Studios decided to cease submissions and support for ASIFA-Hollywoods Annie Awards

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Genesis Awards
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Presented by the HSUS Hollywood Outreach program, the awards show takes place every March in California. The awards have honored such well-known personalities as Aaron Sorkin, Anderson Cooper, Peter Gabriel, Ellen DeGeneres, Jane Goodall, Michael Jackson, David E. The Genesis Awards were founded as an event in 1986 by the Broadway actress. Wyler believed that members of the media encouraged them to spotlight more animal issues, thus increasing public awareness. The first event, a luncheon, drew 140 attendees, in 1991, Wyler founded the Ark Trust, Inc. to present the Genesis Awards. Dr. Michael A. Giannelli served as the Founding Executive Director from 1991 through 1997, in 1990, it became a television special airing first on the Discovery Channel and then on Animal Planet. In August 2002, the Ark Trust joined with the Humane Society of the United States, Wyler, as Vice President of HSUS Hollywood, continued her role as Chair of the event and Executive Producer of the Genesis Awards television special until her retirement in 2006. Beginning with the first ceremony in 1986, Genesis Awards entries have been submitted by members of the public as well as by media professionals, categories span television, film, print, radio, music, and the arts. The Genesis Awards Committee - via a process of submission, nomination, candidate selection, debate, the 13 committee members are selected based on their personal histories in working for animal causes. The members include people from various organizations and diverse walks of life. The Genesis Awards is the event of its kind honoring the entertainment industry. Celebrating the power of the news and entertainment media to shape and change societal attitudes for the good, Genesis Awards acknowledge outstanding works in TV, film, print, the Genesis Awards is taped for broadcast. The awards ceremony has held at both the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills and the Century Plaza Hotel in Century City. Through the years it has aired on the Discovery Channel, American Life Network, sponsors for the Genesis Awards have included Warner Bros. Gardein, One Car One Difference, Honda, Bank of America, HBO, Market Development Group Incorporated, - Best Feature Film - Family The Corporation - Best Documentary Feature 8 Simple Rules, Finale, Part Deux - Sid Caesar Comedy Award Huff, Is She Dead

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DVD region code
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This is achieved by way of region-locked DVD players, which will play back only DVDs encoded to their region. The American DVD Copy Control Association also requires that DVD player manufacturers incorporate the regional-playback control system, however, region-free DVD players, which ignore region coding, are also commercially available, and many DVD players can be modified to be region-free, allowing playback of all discs. DVDs may use one code, a combination of codes, every code or no codes, DVDs in Hispanophone Latin America and Mexico use both the region 1 and region 4 codes. DVDs sold in the Baltic states use both region 2 and 5 codes, Region 0 is widely used by China and the Philippines. Most DVDs in India combine the region 2, region 4, European region 2 DVDs may be sub-coded D1 to D4. D1 are the United Kingdom–only releases, D2 and D3 are not sold in the UK and Ireland, any combination of regions can be applied to a single disc. For example, a DVD designated Region 2/4 is suitable for playback in Western Europe, Oceania, so-called Region 0 and ALL discs are meant to be playable worldwide. The term Region 0 also describes the DVD players designed or modified to incorporate Regions 1–6, thereby providing compatibility with most discs, regardless of region. This apparent solution was popular in the days of the DVD format. This system is known as Regional Coding Enhancement, the scheme was deployed on only a handful of discs. The disc contained the program material region coded as region 1. But it also contained a video loop of a map of the world showing the regions, which was coded as region 2,3,4,5. The intention was that when the disc was played in a non-region 1 player and this played the aforementioned video loop of a map, which was impossible to escape from, as the user controls were disabled. However, the scheme was fundamentally flawed, as a player tries to play a disc using the last region that worked with the previously inserted disc. If it cannot play the disc, then it tries another region until one is found that works, RCE could thus be defeated by briefly playing a normal region 1 disc, and then inserting the RCE protected region 1 disc, which would now play. RCE caused a few problems with genuine region 1 players, some manufacturers of DVD players now freely supply information on how to disable regional lockout, and on some recent models, it appears to be disabled by default. Computer programs such as DVD Shrink, Digiarty WinX DVD Ripper Platinum can make copies of region-coded DVDs without RCE restriction, One purpose of region coding is controlling release dates. A practice of movie marketing threatened by the advent of home video is to release a movie to cinemas

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The Simpsons (season 1)
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The Simpsons first season originally aired on the Fox network between December 17,1989 and May 13,1990, beginning with the Christmas special Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire. The executive producers for the first production season were Matt Groening, James L. Brooks, the producers considered aborting the series if the next episode turned out as bad, but it only suffered from easily fixable problems. The producers convinced Fox to move the debut to December 17, the first season won one Emmy Award, and received four additional nominations. The DVD boxset was released on September 25,2001 in Region 1, Season one was also released for the iTunes Store on December 22,2010, dubbed a digital edition. The Simpsons creator Matt Groening conceived the idea for the Simpsons in the lobby of James L. Brookss office, Brooks, the producer of the sketch comedy program The Tracey Ullman Show, wanted to use a series of animated shorts as bumpers between sketches. He had asked Groening to pitch an idea for a series of animated shorts, the Simpson family first appeared as shorts in The Tracey Ullman Show on April 19,1987. Groening submitted only basic sketches to the animators and assumed that the figures would be cleaned up in production, the animators merely re-traced his drawings, which led to the crude appearance of the characters in the initial short episodes. In 1989, a team of companies adapted The Simpsons into a half-hour series for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The team included what is now the Klasky Csupo animation house, during the years of producing the shorts, everything was created in-house. Due to the workload of the full-length episodes, production was subcontracted to South Korean animation studio AKOM. While character and background layout is done by the studio, tweening, coloring. The Simpsons was co-developed by Groening, James L. Brooks, and Sam Simon, Groening and Simon, however, did not get along and were often in conflict over the show, Groening once described their relationship as very contentious. Groening said his goal in creating the show was to offer the audience an alternative to what he called the mainstream trash that they were watching, Brooks negotiated a provision in the contract with the Fox network that prevented Fox from interfering with the shows content. Fox was nervous about the show because they were unsure if it could sustain the attention for the duration of the episode. They proposed doing three seven-minute shorts per episode and four specials until the audience adjusted, but in the end, the producers gambled by asking Fox for 13 full-length episodes. Simon assembled and led the team of writers, consisting of John Swartzwelder, Jon Vitti, George Meyer, Jeff Martin, Al Jean, Mike Reiss, Jay Kogen. Simon has been credited as developing sensibility, ken Levine says he brought a level of honesty to the characters and made them three-dimensional, adding that Simons comedy is all about character, not just a string of gags. In The Simpsons, the characters are motivated by their emotions, what are they thinking. —that is Sams contribution

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Sam Simon
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While at Stanford University, Simon worked as a newspaper cartoonist and after graduating became a storyboard artist at Filmation Studios. Simon submitted a script for the sitcom Taxi, which was produced. Over the next few years, Simon wrote and produced for Cheers, Its Garry Shandlings Show and other programs, in 1989, Simon developed the animated sitcom The Simpsons with Matt Groening and James L. Brooks. Simon assembled the shows first writing team, co-wrote eight episodes and has credited with developing sensibility. Simons relationship with Groening was strained and he left the show in 1993, the following year Simon co-created The George Carlin Show, before later working as a director on shows such as The Drew Carey Show. Simon won nine Primetime Emmy Awards for his television work, Simon turned to fields outside television in his later years. He also funded the self-christened Sea Shepherd Conservation Society vessel the MY Sam Simon, Simon was engaged at the time of his death, having been previously twice married, including to the actress Jennifer Tilly. Following a profile of Simon on 60 Minutes in 2007, CBS writer Daniel Schorn wrote in an article that Simon was perhaps the Renaissance man of the baffling. Simon was diagnosed with colorectal cancer in 2012 and given only three to six months to live. Simon died on March 8,2015 and he bequeathed his $100 million estate to various charities which he actively supported during his lifetime. Simon was born Samuel Michael Simon on June 6,1955 in Los Angeles, California and he grew up in Beverly Hills and Malibu. Simons family lived opposite Groucho Marx, Simons father was a cheap clothing manufacturer and was of Estonian Jewish heritage. Simon had a childhood which has described as comfortable and privileged. Although his parents wanted Simon to become a lawyer, Simon was interested in art from a young age and he once was told by Walt Disney that he would one day work at his studio. Simon attended Beverly Hills High School, where he was on the football team and he was awarded Most Humorous and Most Talented in his senior yearbook. He later attended Stanford University, graduating in 1977, Simon had not wished to attend college, but Stanford persuaded him to apply due to his sufficient grades and proficiency at football, Simon quit the football team after one day. Simon drew comics for the newspaper, but was denied admission to a drawing class for not being talented enough. As he recalled to the Stanford alumni magazine, he was told, “You’d be taking the space of a student who has talent. ”Simon majored in psychology, but did not focus on his academics

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Jeff Martin (writer)
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Jeff Martin is an American television producer and writer. He was a writer for The Simpsons during the first five seasons and he attended Harvard University, where he wrote for The Harvard Lampoon, as have many other Simpsons writers. He left along with most of the staff in 1993. Baby Blues and Homeboys in Outer Space, Martin won four Emmys during his time at Late Night. He currently lives in Los Angeles with his wife, fellow producer and writer Suzanne Martin. His eldest daughter graduated from NYU in 2010 and he is credited with writing the following episodes, Dead Putting Society Oh Brother, Where Art Thou

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The Critic
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The Critic is an American prime time animated series revolving around the life of New York film critic Jay Sherman, voiced by actor Jon Lovitz. It was created by writing partners Al Jean and Mike Reiss, the Critic had 23 episodes produced, first broadcast on ABC in 1994, and finishing its original run on Fox in 1995. According to PopMatters, the creators they intended the series as their letter to New York. The show often referenced popular movies such as Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory and The Godfather and they also spoofed Dudley Moore, usually as his character Arthur Bach from the 1981 film Arthur. Despite the ratings improving, The Critic was cancelled after two seasons and it continued to air through reruns on Comedy Central and then on Locomotion. From February 1,2000 to 2001, ten webisodes were produced using Adobe Shockwave. In 2004, the DVD box set was released, which includes all 23 TV episodes, in the late 2000s, reruns of the show aired again on ReelzChannel in the US and on Teletoons programming block Teletoon at Night in Canada. As of 2016, the first season can be viewed for free on Crackle, the show follows the life of 36-year-old film critic from New York named Jay Prescott Sherman. His televised review show is called Coming Attractions, which airs on the Philips Broadcasting cable network and he is also cold, mean-spirited, and elitist. His signature line, upon seeing a movie, is It stinks. Each episode was full of references and parodies. In the second season, Jay acquired a love interest — a Southern woman named Alice Tompkins, the show was created by Al Jean and Mike Reiss, who along with James L. Brooks served as executive producers. The Critic was produced by Gracie Films in association with Columbia Pictures, the shows animation was done by Film Roman. It was co-produced by Patric Verrone, the show sometimes included appearances of real life critics, such as Gene Shallit, Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert, who provided their own voices. When choosing things to parody, Reiss and Jean made a decision to find the right balance between current pop culture, and references that would stand the test of time. The Critic was the first major non-family sitcom animated program to appear in primetime, the show started out on ABC on January 26,1994, where it aired 13 episodes. It was cancelled by the network after half a season, and was moved onto Fox the following year where it ran for another 10 episode season. Around this time, it was included in a shameless plug crossover with The Simpsons and assumed the timeslot immediately after the show in the TV schedule, in an attempt to popularise it

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The Simpsons (season 13)
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The Simpsons thirteenth season originally aired on the Fox network between November 6,2001 and May 22,2002 and consists of 22 episodes. The show runner for the production season was Al Jean who executive-produced 17 episodes. Mike Scully executive-produced the remaining five, which were all hold-overs that were produced for the previous season, the Simpsons is an animated series about a working-class family, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie. The show is set in the city of Springfield, and lampoons American culture, society, television. The Simpsons ranked 30th in the ratings with an average viewership of 12.4 million viewers. It was the second highest rated show on Fox after Malcolm in the Middle, the DVD boxset was released in the United States and Canada on August 24,2010, eight years after it had completed broadcast on television. Mike Scully served as producer for the show for seasons nine to twelve. Five of the episodes produced for season 12 were held over and he left the show following season 12 and was replaced by Al Jean. Jean was one of the writers for The Simpsons, and served as executive producer of the third. Jean returned full-time to The Simpsons during the season, this time without Reiss. Jean called it a job with a lot of responsibility. Writers credited with episodes in the season included Joel H. Freelance writers included Bill Freiberger. Animation directors included Bob Anderson, Mike B, Anderson, Mark Kirkland, Jen Kamerman, Lance Kramer, Nancy Kruse, Lauren MacMullan, Michael Marcantel, Pete Michels, Steven Dean Moore, Matthew Nastuk, Michael Polcino, Jim Reardon and Chuck Sheetz. The main cast consisted of Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith, Hank Azaria, other cast members included Marcia Wallace, Pamela Hayden, Tress MacNeille, Russi Taylor and Karl Wiedergott. DVDDizzy rhetorically asked how the stand up for someone just looking to jump into a full, semi-recent year of episodes. It explained Nearly everything that makes The Simpsons what it is can be found here, the site explained Not every moment here is brilliant. After a rocky start, the season hits its groove a few episodes in. Even though jokes dont always land, there are guaranteed to be at least a few amusing moments per episode, the stylings havent changed all that much

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George Meyer
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George A. Meyer is an American producer and writer. Meyer is best known for his work on The Simpsons, where he led the group script rewrite sessions and he has been publicly credited with thoroughly shap. the comedic sensibility of the show. Raised in Tucson, Meyer attended Harvard University, there, after becoming president of the Harvard Lampoon, he graduated in 1978 with a degree in biochemistry. Abandoning plans to attend school, Meyer attempted to make money through dog racing. Meyer left after two seasons and went on to write for The New Show, Not Necessarily the News, tired of life in New York, Meyer moved to Boulder, Colorado where he wrote a screenplay for a film for Letterman to star in. The project fell through and Meyer then founded the humor zine Army Man which garnered a strong following, the producer Sam Simon was a fan and he hired Meyer to write for the animated sitcom The Simpsons in 1989. He has held a number of positions on the show and also cowrote The Simpsons Movie, Meyer is in a relationship with the writer Maria Semple and the two have a daughter. Born in Pennsylvania, United States in 1956, Meyer grew up in Tucson and he is the eldest of eight children in a Roman Catholic family of German ancestry. His parents both worked in the estate business. Due to its size, family activities were limited so Meyer watched lots of television and he was an Eagle Scout and an altar boy and wrote for the student newspaper. He grew up hoping to one day become either a priest or ballplayer and he was disinterested in television, only finding humor in Get Smart and Batman, where he appreciated its loopy, irreverent humor. Meyer attended Harvard University where he served as president of the Harvard Lampoon, the fact that people took humor very seriously at the Lampoon changed life. In 1977, he and several other Lampoon staffers wrote The Harvard Lampoon Big Book of College Life, aside from the Lampoon, his grades at Harvard were average and he suffered several bouts of depression. He graduated in 1978 with a degree in biochemistry and was accepted into medical school, Meyer commented on his Roman Catholic upbringing in a 2000 New Yorker profile, People talk about how horrible it is to be brought up Catholic, and its all true. The main thing was there was no sense of proportion. I would chew a piece of gum at school, and the nun would say, Jesus is very angry with you about that, thats a horrifying image to throw at a little kid. You really could almost think that your talking in line, say, was on a par with killing Jesus, after college, Meyer moved to Denver, Colorado, planning to scientifically win a fortune through dog racing. However, he ran out of money after two weeks and he then worked in a variety of jobs including as a substitute teacher, and a salesman in a clothing store, and also won $2,000 on the game show Jeopardy

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John Swartzwelder
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John Joseph Swartzwelder, Jr. is an American comedy writer and novelist, best known for his work on the animated television series The Simpsons. Born in Seattle, Washington, Swartzwelder began his working in advertising. He was later hired to work on comedy series Saturday Night Live in the mid-1980s as a writer and he later contributed to fellow writer George Meyers short-lived Army Man magazine, which led him to join the original writing team of The Simpsons, beginning in 1989. He worked on The Simpsons for fourteen years as a writer and producer, later contributing to the programs 2007 film adaption and he is credited with writing the largest number of Simpsons episodes by a large margin. After his retirement from the show, he began a career as a writer of self-published absurdist novels and he has written over eleven novels, the most recent of which, The Animal Report, was published in 2014. Swartzwelder is revered among fans, his colleagues have called him among the best comedy writers. He is famously averse to press, living life as a recluse, Swartzwelder was born in Seattle, Washington, the son of Gloria Mae and John Joseph Swartzwelder, Sr. He attended high school in Renton, Washington, Swartzwelder started out with a career in advertising. He sent a joke submission to the writers of Late Night with David Letterman in 1983, writer Jim Downey traced Swartzwelder based on the Chicago postmark on the card via phone books at the New York Public Library. After contacting his mother in Seattle, she redirected him to her son and he was not hired for Letterman, but Downey did bring him to work on Saturday Night Live beginning in 1985. At SNL, he shared an office with Robert Smigel, and met George Meyer, during his time at the program, he became known for writing odder material. He was fired from the program in the summer of 1986, Meyer subsequently quit SNL and created the magazine Army Man, recruiting Swartzwelder to help him write it. Meyer noted on Army Man, The only rule was that the stuff had to be funny, to me, the quintessential Army Man joke was one of John Swartzwelders, They can kill the Kennedys. Why cant they make a cup of coffee that tastes good and its a horrifying idea juxtaposed with something really banal—and yet theres a kind of logic to it. Its illuminating because its kind of how Americans see things, Lifes a big jumble, in 1988, Sam Simon, a reader of Army Man, recruited both Swartzwelder and Meyer to write for a new Fox animated sitcom he was executive producing, The Simpsons. This was a result of Swartzwelders avid smoking coming into conflict with a newly implemented policy banning smoking in the writers room. Swartzwelders scripts typically needed minimal rewriting compared to those of other writers, in 1996, Swartzwelder created and produced his own pilot presentation for Fox titled Pistol Pete, which was designed to spoof western films. Starring Stephen Kearney, Mark Derwin, Lisa Robin Kelly, and Brian Doyle Murray, John Rich, veteran television director known for The Dick Van Dyke Show, All in the Family, and Gunsmoke, directed the pilot, which was shot at Veluzat Motion Picture Ranch

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Conan O'Brien
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Conan Christopher OBrien is an American television host, comedian, and television producer. He is best known for hosting several talk shows, since 2010 he has hosted Conan on the cable channel TBS. OBrien was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, and was raised in an Irish Catholic family and he served as president of The Harvard Lampoon while attending Harvard University, and was a writer for the sketch comedy series Not Necessarily the News. After writing for comedy shows in Los Angeles, he joined the writing staff of Saturday Night Live. OBrien was a writer and producer for The Simpsons for two seasons until he was commissioned by NBC to take over David Lettermans position as host of Late Night in 1993. A virtual unknown to the public, OBriens initial Late Night tenure received unfavorable reviews, the show generally improved over time and was highly regarded by the time of his departure in 2009. Afterwards, OBrien relocated from New York to Los Angeles to host his own incarnation of The Tonight Show for seven months until network politics prompted a host change in 2010. He has hosted Conan since 2010 and has hosted such events as the Emmy Awards. OBrien has been the subject of a documentary, Conan OBrien Cant Stop, with the retirement of David Letterman on May 20,2015, OBrien became the longest-working of all current late-night talk show hosts in the United States, at 22 years. OBrien was born on April 18,1963 in Brookline, Massachusetts and his father, Thomas Francis OBrien, is a physician, epidemiologist, and professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. His mother, Ruth OBrien, is an attorney and partner at the Boston firm Ropes & Gray and he is the third of six children. OBriens family is Irish Catholic, some of his Irish ancestors immigrated before the American Civil War, in a Late Night episode, OBrien paid a visit to County Kerry, Ireland, where his ancestors originated. OBrien attended Brookline High School, where he served as the editor of the school newspaper. After graduating as valedictorian in 1981, he entered Harvard University, at Harvard, OBrien lived in Holworthy Hall during his first year and Mather House during his three upper-class years. He concentrated in history and literature and graduated cum laude in 1985. OBriens senior thesis concerned the use of children as symbols in the works of William Faulkner, larry Bird in which the Boston Celtics play against a classical ballet troupe. During his sophomore and junior years he served as the Lampoons president, at this time, OBriens future boss at NBC, Jeff Zucker, was serving as President of the schools newspaper The Harvard Crimson. OBrien moved to Los Angeles after graduation to join the staff of HBOs Not Necessarily the News

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Bill Oakley
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Bill Oakley is an American television writer and producer, known for his work on the animated comedy series The Simpsons. Oakley and Josh Weinstein became best friends and writing partners at high school and he worked on several short-term media projects, including writing for the variety show Sunday Best, but was then unemployed for a long period. Oakley and Weinstein eventually penned a script for Seinfeld, after which they wrote Marge Gets a Job. Subsequently, the two were hired to write for the show on a permanent basis in 1992, after they wrote episodes such as $pringfield, Bart vs. Australia and Who Shot Mr. Burns. The two were appointed executive producers and showrunners for the seventh and eighth seasons of the show, after they left The Simpsons, Oakley and Weinstein created Mission Hill. The show was plagued by promotional issues and was swiftly canceled and they worked as consulting producers on Futurama, then created The Mullets in 2003. The two wrote several unsuccessful TV pilots, and were due to serve as showrunners on Sit Down, Oakley left the project over a contract dispute. He has since written for The Cleveland Show and Portlandia, without Weinstein and he also served as co-executive producer and writer on Portlandia, sharing a Writers Guild of America Award with his fellow writers in 2013. Oakley is married to fellow writer Rachel Pulido, Oakley was born William Lloyd Oakley in Westminster, Maryland and raised on a farm in Union Bridge, Maryland. He was a fan of Mad magazine from an early age and he attended St. Albans High School in Washington D. C. where he met and became best friends with Josh Weinstein in the eighth grade. The two created the humor magazine The Alban Antic in 1983. Such would be the length of their partnership, the two often finish each others sentences, Oakley later attended Harvard University, where he wrote for and served as Vice President of the Harvard Lampoon, working on the famous 1986 USA Today parody issue. He graduated in 1988 after studying American history, there, he worked in publicity, doing promotion for Americas Most Wanted. In their free time, Oakley and Weinstein wrote for local comedy groups, in 1989, they moved to New York City after being hired to write for a game show on Ha. before writing for a variety show on the network featuring Denis Leary. The two also wrote for the National Lampoon and Spy, an editor of Spy was hired by NBC to run the variety show Sunday Best, and took Oakley and Weinstein to Los Angeles with him in 1991. When the show was canceled after three episodes, they were unemployed for a period, and Oakley lived on unemployment benefits. He later considered applying to join the United States Foreign Service, after changing their agent, they wrote a spec script for Seinfeld, which was well received. Amongst those who liked it were Al Jean and Mike Reiss, there were no openings on the staff at the time, but Oakley and Weinstein were hired to write the episode Marge Gets a Job, based on an idea by Conan OBrien

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Josh Weinstein
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Josh Weinstein is an American television writer and producer, known for his work on the animated comedy series The Simpsons. Weinstein and Bill Oakley became best friends and writing partners at St. Albans High School and he worked on several short-term media projects, including writing for the variety show Sunday Best, but was then unemployed for a long period. Weinstein and Oakley eventually penned a script for Seinfeld, after which they wrote Marge Gets a Job. Subsequently, the two were hired to write for the show on a permanent basis in 1992, after they wrote episodes such as $pringfield, Bart vs. Australia and Who Shot Mr. Burns. The two were appointed executive producers and showrunners for the seventh and eighth seasons of the show, after they left The Simpsons, Oakley and Weinstein created Mission Hill. The show was plagued by promotional issues and was swiftly canceled and they worked as consulting producers on Futurama, then created The Mullets in 2003. The two wrote several unsuccessful TV pilots, and were due to serve as showrunners on Sit Down, Oakley left the project over a contract dispute, but Weinstein remained until it was canceled. He co-produced and wrote for Futurama again during its Comedy Central revival, since 2013, Weinstein has served as showrunner for the CBBC series Strange Hill High. He has also served as a writer for Season Two of Gravity Falls, Weinstein is married to journalist Lisa Simmons. Weinstein was born and raised in Washington, D. C. to Rosa and his mother is the director of the Himmelfarb Mobile University which provides education for the elderly, while his father is a lawyer for Covington & Burling. He has a brother, Jacob, and a sister, Teme, Weinstein attended St. Albans High School in Washington, D. C. where he met and became best friends with Bill Oakley in the eighth grade. The two created the humor magazine The Alban Antic in 1983. He later attended Stanford University, where he served as editor-in-chief of the Stanford Chaparral, Weinstein is an honorary member of the Harvard Lampoon as he worked on some of Lampoons parody publications with Oakley over the summers between course years. C. There, he worked as a copywriter for an advertising agency, in their free time, Oakley and Weinstein wrote for local comedy groups, such as Gross National Product. In 1989, they moved to New York City after being hired to write for a show on Ha. before writing for a variety show on the network featuring Denis Leary. The two also wrote for the National Lampoon and Spy, an editor of Spy was hired by NBC to run the variety show Sunday Best, and took Oakley and Weinstein to Los Angeles with him in 1991. When the show was canceled after three episodes, they were unemployed for a lengthy period, after changing their agent, they wrote a spec script for Seinfeld, which was well received. Amongst those who liked it were Al Jean and Mike Reiss, there were no openings on the staff at the time, but Oakley and Weinstein were hired to write the episode Marge Gets a Job, based on an idea by Conan OBrien

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NBC
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The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcast television network that is the flagship property of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast. The network is part of the Big Three television networks, founded in 1926 by the Radio Corporation of America, NBC is the oldest major broadcast network in the United States. Following the acquisition by GE, Bob Wright served as executive officer of NBC, remaining in that position until his retirement in 2007. In 2003, French media company Vivendi merged its entertainment assets with GE, Comcast purchased a controlling interest in the company in 2011, and acquired General Electrics remaining stake in 2013. Following the Comcast merger, Zucker left NBC Universal and was replaced as CEO by Comcast executive Steve Burke, during a period of early broadcast business consolidation, radio manufacturer Radio Corporation of America acquired New York City radio station WEAF from American Telephone & Telegraph. Westinghouse, a shareholder in RCA, had an outlet in Newark, New Jersey pioneer station WJZ. This station was transferred from Westinghouse to RCA in 1923, WEAF acted as a laboratory for AT&Ts manufacturing and supply outlet Western Electric, whose products included transmitters and antennas. The Bell System, AT&Ts telephone utility, was developing technologies to transmit voice- and music-grade audio over short and long distances, the 1922 creation of WEAF offered a research-and-development center for those activities. WEAF maintained a schedule of radio programs, including some of the first commercially sponsored programs. In an early example of chain or networking broadcasting, the station linked with Outlet Company-owned WJAR in Providence, Rhode Island, AT&T refused outside companies access to its high-quality phone lines. The early effort fared poorly, since the telegraph lines were susceptible to atmospheric. In 1925, AT&T decided that WEAF and its network were incompatible with the companys primary goal of providing a telephone service. AT&T offered to sell the station to RCA in a deal that included the right to lease AT&Ts phone lines for network transmission, the divisions ownership was split among RCA, its founding corporate parent General Electric and Westinghouse. NBC officially started broadcasting on November 15,1926, WEAF and WJZ, the flagships of the two earlier networks, were operated side-by-side for about a year as part of the new NBC. On April 5,1927, NBC expanded to the West Coast with the launch of the NBC Orange Network and this was followed by the debut of the NBC Gold Network, also known as the Pacific Gold Network, on October 18,1931. The Orange Network carried Red Network programming, and the Gold Network carried programming from the Blue Network, initially, the Orange Network recreated Eastern Red Network programming for West Coast stations at KPO in San Francisco. The Orange Network name was removed from use in 1936, at the same time, the Gold Network became part of the Blue Network. In the 1930s, NBC also developed a network for shortwave radio stations, in 1927, NBC moved its operations to 711 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, occupying the upper floors of a building designed by architect Floyd Brown

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Late Night with Conan O'Brien
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Late Night with Conan OBrien is an American late-night talk show hosted by Conan OBrien that aired 2,725 episodes on NBC between 1993 and 2009. The show featured varied comedic material, celebrity interviews, and musical, Late Night aired weeknights at 12,37 am Eastern/11,37 pm Central and 12,37 am Mountain in the United States. From 1993 until 2000, Andy Richter served as OBriens sidekick, following his departure, the shows house musical act was The Max Weinberg 7, led by E Street Band drummer Max Weinberg. In 2004, as part of a deal to secure a new contract, Jimmy Fallon began hosting his version of Late Night on March 2,2009. Upon Johnny Carsons retirement from The Tonight Show in 1992, executives at NBC announced that Carsons frequent guest-host Jay Leno would be Carsons replacement, NBC later said that Lettermans high ratings for Late Night were the reason they kept him where he was. Letterman was bitterly disappointed and angry at not having been given The Tonight Show job and, at Carsons advice, CBS signed Letterman to host his own show opposite The Tonight Show. He moved his show over to CBS virtually unchanged, taking most of the staff, skits, however, NBC owned the rights to the Late Night name, forcing Letterman to re-christen his show Late Show with David Letterman. NBC was not prepared to replace both Letterman and Late Night, aside from the name, it needed to build a new show. Both Dana Carvey and Garry Shandling declined to host it, Saturday Night Live producer Lorne Michaels was brought in to develop the new show and comedians Jon Stewart, Drew Carey, and Paul Provenza auditioned to host. Michaels suggested to Conan OBrien, a writer for The Simpsons and former writer for Saturday Night Live. Despite having about 40 seconds of television-performance experience as an extra on Saturday Night Live sketches. His guests were Jason Alexander and Mimi Rogers, and the took place on the set of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. OBrien was offered the show on April 26, and made his first meaningful television appearance later that day when Leno introduced him on Tonight, on the final episode of his 16-year run, OBrien stated that he owed his career to Lorne Michaels. OBriens Late Night debuted on September 13,1993, with Andy Richter chosen as OBriens sidekick, the premiere episode featured John Goodman, Drew Barrymore, and Tony Randall. The episode featured a cold open of OBriens walk to the studio with constant reminders that he was expected to live up to Letterman, after seeming to be unaffected by the comments, OBrien arrives at his dressing room and cheerfully prepares to hang himself. However, a warning that the show is about to start causes him to abandon his plans, OBriens inexperience was apparent and the show was generally considered mediocre by critics in terms of the hosts ability. The Chicago Sun-Times Lon Grankhe called OBrien nervous, unprepared and generally geeky and Tom Shales wrote As for OBrien and he giggles and titters, jiggles about and fiddles with his cuffs. He has dark, beady little eyes like a rabbit, hes one of the whitest white men ever

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Homer Goes to College
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Homer Goes to College is the third episode of The Simpsons fifth season. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on October 14,1993, in the episode, Homers lack of a college degree is revealed and he is sent to Springfield University to pass a nuclear physics class. Homer, who bases his perception of college on comedy films and TV shows, the boys, who are stereotypical nerds, try to help Homer, but he instead tries to help them party and decides to pull a prank on another college. They steal Springfield A&Ms mascot, but his friends are caught, Homer invites them to live with him, but his family soon become angered by their new housemates. Homer Goes to College was directed by Jim Reardon and was the episode of the show for which Conan OBrien received sole writing credit. OBrien would leave the series halfway through the production of the season to host his own show and he had been working on this episode when he was informed that he had received the job and was forced to walk out on his contract. The episode contains references to the film Animal House as well as Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Star Trek and the song Louie Louie by The Kingsmen. During a surprise inspection of the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and he has no idea what to do and starts pressing buttons at random, somehow causing a nuclear meltdown even though there was no nuclear material inside the van. The NRC officials tell Mr. Burns that Homers job requires college training in physics. Homer is rejected by every college he applies to, but Burns helps him get into Springfield University and he also insults the college dean, Dean Peterson, believing him to be a crusty, conservative administrator. In reality, Peterson relates well with the students and is relatively young, Homer acts like a know-it-all in class and is asked to demonstrate how a proton accelerator operates, consequently, he causes a nuclear meltdown in class. Dean Peterson takes him aside and recommends hiring a tutor, the tutors turn out to be three computer nerds named Benjamin, Doug, and Gary. The trio try to help Homer understand the material from his physics course, instead, he is determined to help them gain a social life by pulling a prank on rival college Springfield A&M University. The prank involves kidnapping the other mascot, a pig named Sir Oinks-a-lot. However, Homer causes the pig to become ill after feeding it malt liquor, and Benjamin, Doug. Dean Peterson is forced to expel the nerds, and a remorseful Homer immediately invites them to move in with his family. However, their presence disrupts the normal family routine, and Marge orders Homer to evict them. But the plan backfires, and Homer winds up running down the dean, at the hospital, Homer admits he was fully responsible for the pranks, and asks that Benjamin, Doug, and Gary be reinstated

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Bart Gets Famous
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Bart Gets Famous is the twelfth episode of The Simpsons fifth season. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on February 3,1994, in the episode, Bart gets a job as Krusty the Clowns production assistant. However, he becomes sick of the job and comes close to quitting. During one of his shows, Krusty says he needs to use Bart in a sketch, Bart becomes an accidental star when he says, I didnt do it during the botched sketch. He becomes famous for his catchphrase but soon tired of being known for one line. The episode was written by John Swartzwelder and was the first episode of the series to be directed by Susie Dietter, many characters from the show have catchphrases, and the episode mocks the use of catchphrase-based humor. The writers chose the phrase I didnt do it because they wanted a phrase to point out how really crummy things can become really popular. Conan OBrien, a writer for The Simpsons during the fourth and early part of the fifth season, the writers decided to include him in the episode after he received an audition from NBC to replace David Letterman as the host of Late Night. In its original broadcast, Bart Gets Famous finished 40th in ratings with a Nielsen rating of 11.7, Bart goes on a class field trip to a box factory. He gets bored with the tour and escapes from the class to go to the Channel 6 TV studio nearby, Krusty is angry that his assistant has failed to get him a Danish, as Bart had eaten it, and fires his assistant on the spot. Bart steals a Danish from Kent Brockman and gives it to Krusty, Bart soon gets disillusioned with being Krustys assistant because the cast members do not treat him well and he does not receive any credit for his work. Bart messes up his lines and stumbles, accidentally destroying all of the props on the stage, with the crowd and cameras focused on him, he exclaims I didnt do it, which causes the audience to erupt with laughter. Seeing Barts popularity, Krusty uses him and his I didnt do it catchphrase in later sketches, Bart and his catchphrase continue to be popular, while Krusty creates a wide array of merchandise featuring Barts likeness. Bart becomes sick of his fame and begins to fear that the fad will wear off, so he tries to expand his act and personality during an interview on Conan OBriens late-night talk show, to no avail. Bart decides to stop performing, but Marge convinces him that he should continue because he makes people happy, Bart arrives at Krustys show and enthusiastically delivers his line, but the audience is bored with the line and does not react. With fans no longer interested in Bart, Krusty ditches him, Marge gives Bart a box of items she kept during his stint as a celebrity to help him remember this time of his life. Lisa says that she is glad that Bart can go back to just being himself, the Simpson family — along with Barney Gumble, Mr. Burns, Ned Flanders, and Nelson Muntz — then recite their respective catchphrases, prompting an unamused Lisa to go to her room. Bart Gets Famous was written by John Swartzwelder, the episode mocks the use of catchphrase-based humor

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Greg Daniels
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Gregory Martin Greg Daniels is an American television comedy writer, producer, and director. He is known for his work on television series, including Saturday Night Live, The Simpsons, King of the Hill. All four shows were named among Times James Poniewoziks All Time 100 TV Shows, Daniels attended Harvard University and he became friends with Conan OBrien. Their first writing credit was for Not Necessarily the News, before they were laid off due to budget cuts and he eventually became a writer for two long-running series, Saturday Night Live and The Simpsons. He joined the staff of The Simpsons during the fifth season. He left the series in order to co-create another long-running animated series, King of the Hill, the series ran for thirteen years before it was cancelled in 2009. During the series run, he worked on other series, including the American version of The Office and Parks. As of 2016, he is a producer on the TBS series People of Earth. Daniels is the son of Judy, who worked at the New York Public Library, and Aaron Daniels, who was president of ABC Radio Network. He has stated that he became interested in comedy by watching Monty Pythons Flying Circus as a child and his first joke was a Carnac the Magnificent joke for his father which was later used for The Office episode, The Dundies. Daniels attended Phillips Exeter Academy and then Harvard University where he wrote for the Harvard Lampoon with Conan OBrien, after graduating in 1984, the two accepted jobs at Not Necessarily the News, but they were soon fired due to budget cuts. The two later met Lorne Michaels in late 1987 and they were given a three-week try-out in the Saturday Night Live writing staff, while on the staff, he won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Program. Daniels left the staff in 1990. Daniels joined the staff of The Simpsons in 1993. He was hired in the season following the departures of many of the original team of writers. His first day also coincided with OBriens last day on the series, when he initially joined the series, he believed the series had gone past the glory years and that he had missed the boat. For season six, he wrote Homer Badman, Lisas Wedding, the latter episode became the third of the series to win a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program. In the seventh season, Daniels wrote Bart Sells His Soul and his final credit for the series was for 22 Short Films About Springfield, which he served as supervising writer alongside show runner Josh Weinstein

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Mike Scully
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Michael Mike Scully is an American television writer and producer. He is known for his work as producer and showrunner of the animated sitcom The Simpsons from 1997 to 2001. Scully grew up in West Springfield, Massachusetts and long had an interest in writing and he was an underachiever at school and dropped out of college, going on to work in a series of jobs. Eventually, in 1986, he moved to Los Angeles where he worked as a stand-up comic, Scully went on to write for several television sitcoms before 1993, when he was hired to write for The Simpsons. There, he wrote episodes, including Lisa on Ice and Team Homer. Scully won three Primetime Emmy Awards for his work on the series, with publications praising his episodes. Scully still works on the show and also co-wrote 2007s The Simpsons Movie, more recently, Scully co-created The Pitts and Complete Savages as well as working on Everybody Loves Raymond and Parks and Recreation. He co-developed the short-lived animated television version of Napoleon Dynamite, Scully is married to fellow writer Julie Thacker. Scully was born October 2,1956 at Springfield Hospital in Springfield, Massachusetts, as a child he hoped to be a musician or a hockey player. At Main Street Elementary School, with the encouragement of his teacher James Doyle and he took up work in the clothing department at Steigers department store, as a janitor at the Baystate Medical Center and also as a driving instructor. He commented, I think if I had actually succeeded at college and gotten a degree in accounting or something, having no marketable job skills was a tremendous incentive to keep trying to succeed as a writer. Regardless, he moved to Los Angeles, California in 1982, in California, Scully worked in a tuxedo store. He also got a job writing jokes for comedian Yakov Smirnoff and he purchased scripts from a variety of half-hour comedy shows, including Taxi, to train himself to write them and had numerous speculative scripts rejected. He started bouncing around Hollywood working on some of the lousiest sitcoms in history and he served on the writing staff of The Royal Family, Out of This World, Top of the Heap and What a Country. Where he did audience warm-up, a role he performed on Grand. In 1993, David Mirkin hired Scully to write for The Simpsons, as a replacement for the departing Conan OBrien, after reading some of his sample scripts. He began as a writer and producer for the show during its season and wrote the episodes Lisas Rival, Two Dozen and One Greyhounds. Lisas Rival was his first episode, he wrote the script, similarly, he wrote the script for Two Dozen and One Greyhounds, which was based on an idea by Al Jean and Mike Reiss

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Lisa's Rival
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Lisas Rival is the second episode of The Simpsons sixth season. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on September 11,1994 and it was the first episode to be written by Mike Scully, and was directed by Mark Kirkland. Winona Ryder guest stars as Allison Taylor, a new student at Springfield Elementary School, Lisa Simpson begins to feel threatened by Allison because she is smarter, younger, and a better saxophone player than she is. The episodes subplot sees Homer steal a large pile of sugar from a crashed truck, although written by Scully, the episode was originally pitched by former writer Conan OBrien, while the subplot was suggested by George Meyer. It features references to such as The Fugitive and Scarface. Lisa feels her status as top student in the class is threatened when a new student named Allison arrives at Springfield Elementary. Lisa tries to befriend her since the two share many traits, but Lisa feels that Alison is better than her at the things she takes pride in, at a band practice, the two girls end up in a saxophone duel that results in Lisa passing out from over-exertion. Their rivalry comes to a head during Springfield Elementarys annual diorama building competition, Allison constructs a scene from The Tell-Tale Heart, by Edgar Allan Poe. Lisa goes to great efforts to produce a diorama, a scene from Oliver Twist. Bart decides to intervene and help Lisa sabotage Allisons entry so she can win, on the day of the diorama contest, he distracts the other students with his own demonstrations to give Lisa time to switch Allisons entry with one containing a cows heart. After Principal Skinner chases Bart away, he discovers the heart in the diorama. Soon Lisas conscience intervenes and she produces the real diorama, however, Skinner is unimpressed by both Lisas and Allisons work and declares Ralph Wiggums collection of Star Wars figurines to be the winner. In the end, Lisa and Allison put aside their differences and become friends as they walk off into the sunset, picking up Ralph along the way after he accidentally trips and breaks his action figures. The episodes subplot follows Homer after he encounters and then hundreds of pounds of sugar he finds at the site of Hans Molemans truck accident. Homer decides he can get rich by selling the sugar door-to-door and he keeps the sugar in a pile in his back yard, where he obsessively guards it from thieves. Soon, the sugar attracts bees from a local apiary, the beekeepers track the swarm down and offer to buy the bees back from Homer for $2,000. Before the transaction can be completed, however, it begins to rain, dissolving the sugar, production of the episode was disrupted by the 1994 Northridge earthquake, which also affected the previous episode Bart of Darkness. The Film Roman building used by the staff was so damaged it had to be condemned

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Homer Loves Flanders
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Homer Loves Flanders is the sixteenth episode of The Simpsons fifth season. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on March 17,1994, in the episode, Ned Flanders invites Homer to a football game and the two become good friends. However, Ned soon grows weary of Homers overbearing friendship and stupid antics, the episode was written by David Richardson and directed by Wesley Archer. It was the last episode to be pitched by writer Conan OBrien before he left The Simpsons, since airing, the episode has received mostly positive reviews from television critics. It acquired a Nielsen rating of 10.9, and was the third highest-rated show on the Fox network the week it aired, Homer unsuccessfully attempts to win tickets for a football game on a radio contest. Flanders win the tickets instead, and invites Homer as his guest at the game, desperate to attend the game, Homer accepts. Ned pays for all the food and even gets the winning quarterback to give the ball to Homer. Overwhelmed by Neds generosity and no longer ashamed to be associated with him, Homer becomes friends with Ned, Homer begins acting overly grateful and annoys Ned and his family to no end by interrupting their family time together. The Flanders family and the Simpson family go on a camping trip, when the Simpsons initiate a food fight, Ned tells his wife that he has grown to hate Homer. Upon returning home, Homer remains oblivious to Neds animosity and he arrives at the Flanderss house expecting to play golf, but Ned and his family get in their car and race off without him. Pulled over by Chief Wiggum for speeding, Ned takes a sobriety test as disapproving townspeople watch, at church, when the entire congregation bow their heads in prayer, Homer inhales very loudly through his nose, causing Ned to yell at Homer. This alarms the congregation, who even more upset with Ned. But Homer sticks up for Ned and convinces the congregation to him another chance. The next week, everything returns to normal, as Homer once again is annoyed by Ned, Homer Loves Flanders was the last episode to be pitched by Conan OBrien before he left The Simpsons. David Richardson was assigned to write it, and Wesley Archer to direct it, Richardson wrote the episode at a Motel 6 in Hemet, California while he was dating an actress who was shooting a film there. In this season, the wanted to take a deeper look at the relationships of the characters. One of the things they wanted to explore in particular was what Homer and Flanders have in common, former show runner David Mirkin enjoyed making Homer and Flanders get along because they do not normally act that way. The episode begins with the Simpson family watching a news broadcast in which the news anchor Kent Brockman calls the United States Army a kill-bot factory

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Homer's Barbershop Quartet
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Homers Barbershop Quartet is the first episode of The Simpsons fifth season. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on September 30,1993, the episode was written by Jeff Martin and directed by Mark Kirkland. It features the Be Sharps, a quartet founded by Homer Simpson. The bands story roughly parallels that of The Beatles, George Harrison and David Crosby guest star as themselves, and The Dapper Dans provide the singing voices of the Be Sharps. The episode begins with the Simpson family as they attend a swap meet, there, Bart Simpson and his sister Lisa notice a picture of their father, Homer, on the cover of an old LP album. Homer explains to his family that he, Principal Skinner, Barney Gumble, and Apu Nahasapeemapetilon recorded a quartet album in 1985. He narrates to his family the story of how the formed, reached the pinnacle of success. At the end of the episode, the group reunites to perform a concert on the roof of Moes Tavern, throughout the episode, several references are made to the Beatles and other popular culture icons. In its original American broadcast, Homers Barbershop Quartet finished 30th in ratings and it was praised for its Beatles cameo, despite being a leftover episode from the previous season. Reviews that criticized the episodes inconsistent humor blamed it on the change of writers before the episodes creation, at the Springfield Swap Meet, Bart and Lisa Simpson notice Homer on the cover of an LP album. Homer explains that he, Principal Skinner, Barney, and Apu recorded a quartet album in 1985. He then tells his family the story of how the album came to be. While performing at Moes Tavern, an agent offered to represent the group as a band, but only on the condition that they expel Chief Wiggum, who was the bands fourth member at the time. They recruited Barney after hearing him sing in a beautiful Irish tenor voice, in the present, Homer brags that he sold his cars spare tire at the swap meet. On the way home, one of their tires blows out, while Marge walks to a gas station to get a new tire, Homer continues his story. He tells Bart and Lisa that after Marge bought a Baby on board sign, the song Baby on Board appeared on the groups first album, Meet the Be Sharps, and the song became a hit. The Be Sharps performed the song at the Statue of Libertys centennial in 1986, back in the present, the Simpsons are at home, where Homer explains that the Be Sharps became so popular that they were featured on merchandise, including lunch boxes, mugs, and posters. The band later released their album, Bigger than Jesus

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George Harrison
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George Harrison, MBE was an English guitarist, singer, songwriter, and music and film producer who achieved international fame as the lead guitarist of the Beatles. Although most of the Beatles songs were written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney and his songs for the group included Taxman, Within You Without You, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Here Comes the Sun and Something, the last of which became the Beatles second-most covered song. Harrisons earliest musical influences included George Formby and Django Reinhardt, Carl Perkins, Chet Atkins and Chuck Berry were subsequent influences. By 1965 he had begun to lead the Beatles into folk rock through his interest in the Byrds and Bob Dylan, having initiated the bands embracing of Transcendental Meditation in 1967, he subsequently developed an association with the Hare Krishna movement. He also organised the 1971 Concert for Bangladesh with Indian musician Ravi Shankar, in his role as a music and film producer, Harrison produced acts signed to the Beatles Apple record label before founding Dark Horse Records in 1974 and co-founding HandMade Films in 1978. Harrison released several best-selling singles and albums as a solo performer, Rolling Stone magazine ranked him number 11 in their list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time. He is a two-time Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee – as a member of the Beatles in 1988, Harrisons first marriage, to model Pattie Boyd in 1966, ended in divorce in 1977. The following year he married Olivia Harrison, with whom he had one son, Harrison died in 2001, aged 58, from lung cancer. He was cremated and his ashes were scattered in the Ganges and Yamuna rivers in India and he left an estate of almost £100 million. Born in Liverpool, United Kingdom, on 25 February 1943, Harrison was the youngest of four children of Harold Hargreaves Harrison and he had one sister, Louise, and two brothers, Harry and Peter. His mother was an assistant from a Catholic family with Irish roots. His future wife, the model Pattie Boyd, described Harrisons parents as quite short, an enthusiastic music fan, she was known among friends for her loud singing voice, which at times startled visitors by rattling the Harrisons windows. While pregnant with George, she listened to the weekly broadcast Radio India. Harrisons biographer Joshua Greene wrote, Every Sunday she tuned in to mystical sounds evoked by sitars and tablas, hoping that the music would bring peace. Harrison was born and lived the first six years of his life at 12 Arnold Grove, Wavertree, Liverpool, the home had an outdoor toilet and its only heat came from a single coal fire. In 1949 the family were offered a house and moved to 25 Upton Green. In 1948, at the age of five, Harrison enrolled at Dovedale Primary School and he passed the eleven-plus exam and attended Liverpool Institute High School for Boys from 1954 to 1959. Though the institute did offer a course, Harrison was disappointed with the absence of guitars

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National Lampoon's Animal House
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National Lampoons Animal House is a 1978 American comedy film from Universal Pictures. It was produced by Ivan Reitman and Matty Simmons, directed by John Landis, and stars John Belushi, Tim Matheson, John Vernon, Verna Bloom, Thomas Hulce, and Donald Sutherland. The film, a direct spin-off from National Lampoon, is about a group of fraternity members who challenge the authority of the dean of Faber College. The screenplay was adapted by Douglas Kenney, Chris Miller, and Harold Ramis from stories written by Miller, upon its initial release, Animal House received generally mixed reviews from critics, but Time and Roger Ebert proclaimed it one of the years best. The film, along with 1977s The Kentucky Fried Movie, also directed by Landis, was responsible for defining and launching the gross out film genre. As of 2017, it was considered by fans and critics as one of the greatest comedy films ever made. In 2001 the United States Library of Congress deemed Animal House culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant and it was No.1 on Bravos 100 Funniest Movies. It was No.36 on AFIs 100 Years,100 Laughs list of the 100 best American comedies. In 2008 Empire magazine selected it as one of The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time, in 1962, Faber College freshmen Lawrence Larry Kroger and Kent Dorfman seek to join a fraternity. Larry and Kent are invited to pledge and given the fraternity names Pinto and Flounder respectively, by Bluto and he directs the clean-cut, smug Omega president Greg Marmalard to find a way for him to remove the Deltas from campus. Bluto and D-Day steal the answers to an upcoming test from the trash, the Deltas fail the exam, and their grade-point averages fall so low that Wormer tells them he needs only one more incident to revoke their charter. To cheer themselves up, the Deltas organize a party and bring in Otis Day. Wormers wife attends at Otters invitation and has sex with him, Pinto hooks up with Clorette, a girl he met at the supermarket. They make out, but do not have sex because she passes out drunk, Pinto takes her home in a shopping cart and later discovers that she is the mayors daughter. Outraged by his wifes escapades and the threat of personal violence, Wormer organizes a kangaroo court. To take their minds off this action, Otter, Boon, Flounder, Otter is successful in picking up four young women from Emily Dickinson College as dates for himself and his Delta brothers. He elicits sympathy by posing as the fiancé of a woman at the college who died in a recent kiln explosion. They stop at a bar where Days band is performing

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Kelsey Grammer
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Allen Kelsey Grammer is an American actor, voice actor, comedian, producer, director, writer, singer, and activist. Grammer is known for his portrayal of psychiatrist Dr. Frasier Crane on the NBC sitcoms Cheers. Grammer has been married four times and has seven children, Grammer was two years old when his parents divorced. Grammer attended Pine Crest School, a preparatory school in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. After leaving Juilliard, he had an internship with the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego in the late 1970s before a stint in 1980 at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis. He made his Broadway debut in 1981 as Lennox in Macbeth, Grammer then played Michael Cassio in a Broadway revival of Othello, with James Earl Jones and Christopher Plummer. In 1983 he performed on the demo of the Stephen Sondheim–James Lapine production Sunday in the Park with George, in 2000, Grammer again played Macbeth on Broadway, in a production that closed after only 10 days. Grammer originated the roles of Charles Frohman and Captain Hook in the Broadway premiere of the musical Finding Neverland in March 2015 and he returned to the stage from January 19,2016, to April 3. His television career began in the early 1980s when he portrayed Stephen Smith in the NBC miniseries Kennedy, Grammer came to broader public attention as Dr. Frasier Crane in the NBC sitcom Cheers. The character became the center of the spin-off Frasier, one of the most successful spin-offs in TV history. In addition to starring, he directed more than 30 episodes, especially during the second half of the series. Frasier was nominated for and won awards during its 11-year run. In 2001, he negotiated a US$700, 000-per-episode salary for Frasier and his 20-year run playing Dr. Frasier Crane ties a length set by James Arness in playing Marshal Matt Dillon on Gunsmoke from 1955 to 1975 but was surpassed by Richard Belzer in playing Det. John Munch on Homicide, Life on the Street and Law & Order, Frasier Crane also had a crossover appearance in 1993 Wings episode Planes, Trains, & Visiting Cranes. In 2005, Grammer returned to television and he produced and appeared in an American adaptation of the British show The Sketch Show, which aired on Fox. The main cast consisted of Malcolm Barrett, Kaitlin Olson, Mary Lynn Rajskub and Paul F. Tompkins, Grammer appeared in only short opening and closing segments in each episode. Many of the sketches from the British version were re-created, such as the California Dreamin, English Course, only six episodes of the show were made, and it was canceled after only four of them had aired. In 2007, Grammer starred with Patricia Heaton in the American sitcom Back to You and it was canceled by Fox after its first season

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Sideshow Bob
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Robert Underdunk Terwilliger, Jr. Ph. D. better known as Sideshow Bob, is a recurring character in the animated television series The Simpsons. He is voiced by Kelsey Grammer and first appeared briefly in the episode The Telltale Head, Bob is a self-proclaimed genius who is a graduate of Yale University, a member of the Republican Party, and a champion of high culture. He began his career as a sidekick on Krusty the Clowns television show, the plan was foiled by Bart Simpson, and Sideshow Bob was sent to prison. In each appearance thereafter, Bob has assumed the role on The Simpsons of an evil genius, episodes in which he is a central character typically involve Sideshow Bob being released from prison and executing an elaborate revenge plan, usually foiled by Bart and Lisa. His plans often involve murder and destruction, usually targeted at Bart or, less often, Krusty, Sideshow Bob shares some personality traits of Grammers character Frasier Crane from the sitcoms Cheers and Frasier, and has been described as Frasier pickled in arsenic. Grammer, who based Bobs voice on that of actor Ellis Rabb, has been praised for his portrayals of the character, in 2006, he won an Emmy for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance for his work in the episode The Italian Bob. As of 2016, Bob has had speaking appearances in 19 episodes and been featured in 13, in addition to his recurring role in the series, Sideshow Bob has made several appearances in other Simpsons media. He appears in the Simpsons Comics, cameos in the 2007 video game The Simpsons Game, Sideshow Bob is also known for his singing voice, several of Grammers performances have been included in The Simpsons musical compilations. The character of Sideshow Bob began his career as the sidekick on Krusty the Clowns television show. The episode Brother from Another Series reveals that Bob only received the job after his younger brother Cecil failed an audition, because Krusty considered Bob to be a perfect comic foil. After repeated instances of abuse, including being shot from a cannon and hit constantly with pies, in Krusty Gets Busted Bob disguised himself as Krusty and framed him for armed robbery of the Kwik-E-Mart. After Krusty is arrested, Bob takes control of the show, however, Bobs reign is short-lived, Bart Simpson exposes him as the robber, Krusty is released, and Bob is fired and sent to jail. In Black Widower, Bobs first major appearance after framing Krusty, he is released from prison, as part of a scheme to inherit money she has invested in the stock market, Bob attempts to blow Selma up during their honeymoon. Bart again foils the plan and Sideshow Bob returns to prison, after being paroled from prison in Cape Feare, Bob targets Bart directly, threatening him repeatedly and forcing the Simpsons into hiding as part of the Witness Relocation Program. Bob follows them to their hideout, a houseboat on Terror Lake and he allows a final request, however, and Bart asks to hear Bob sing the entire score of H. M. S. The delaying tactic leads to Bobs third arrest, Bob is released from prison once again in Sideshow Bob Roberts, and runs for Mayor of Springfield as the Republican Party candidate. He defeats Democratic Party incumbent Joe Quimby in a landslide, but Bart and Lisa discover that Bob rigged the election, leading to another incarceration. Bob escapes from prison for the first time in Sideshow Bobs Last Gleaming and he is thwarted when he finds out that the bomb itself is a dud, then kidnaps Bart and flies the Wright Brothers plane in an attempt to kill himself, Bart, and Krusty

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Rake (tool)
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Large mechanized versions of rakes are used in farming, called hay rakes, are built in many different forms. Non-mechanized farming may be done with various forms of a hand rake, modern hand-rakes usually have steel, plastic, or bamboo teeth or tines, though historically they have been made with wood or iron. The handle is made of wood or metal. Some rakes are two-sided and made with blades in the shapes of slight crescents. When rakes have longer teeth, they may be arranged in the shape of a folding fan. If the rake lies in the ground teeth up, as shown on the top picture, and someone accidentally steps on the teeth, the rakes handle can swing rapidly upwards, colliding with the victims face. This is often seen in slapstick comedy and cartoons, such as Tom and Jerry and The Simpsons episode Cape Feare, there is a Russian saying to trip twice on the same rake, which means to repeat the same silly mistake. For conditioning and de-thatching soil as well as moving pieces of debris. Larger tools are often used for large areas of de-thatching or soil preparation. However the action of making the soil bare and exposed to sun is not good and it should be protected with straw afterward. Soil aeration tools do not remove weed but prepare soil without exposure, there are pros and cons to each. Plastic rakes are typically cheaper and lighter in weight but break more easily and bend under pressure, metal rakes are better for moving larger piles of leaves and can withstand a little more abuse, but they cost more to purchase. When it comes to raking leaves, either rake will typically work, soil Aeration This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain, Chisholm, Hugh, ed. article name needed. Media related to Hand rakes at Wikimedia Commons

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Deep Space Homer
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Deep Space Homer is the fifteenth episode of The Simpsons fifth season. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on February 24,1994, in the episode, NASA is concerned by the decline in public interest in space exploration, and therefore decides to send an ordinary person into space. Homer is selected and chaos ensues when the system on his space shuttle is destroyed. Deep Space Homer was directed by Carlos Baeza and was the episode of The Simpsons written by David Mirkin. Buzz Aldrin and James Taylor both guest starred as themselves, the critically acclaimed episode became the source of the Overlord meme, and features numerous film parodies, mostly of The Right Stuff and 2001, A Space Odyssey. A copy of the episode is available for astronauts to watch at the International Space Station. At the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant, it is time for the ceremony for the Worker of the Week award and Homer, however, Mr. Burns gives the award to an inanimate carbon rod. The dejected Homer, feeling that no one respects him, turns to TV for solace and comes across a space shuttle launch. Meanwhile, NASA, frustrated over its drop in the Nielsen ratings, at that moment, Homer telephones NASA to complain about their boring space launches, as well as asking if they know where he can find some Tang, and NASA chiefs realize they have found their man. The NASA employees ask Barney to be an astronaut, and when Homer realizes what the proposal entails, he steps in, NASA takes both Homer and Barney to Cape Canaveral for training. As only one of them can go into space, they find themselves in competition. Under NASAs alcohol ban, the newly sober Barney quickly develops superior skills and is selected to fly with astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Race Banyon. However, when Barney toasts his victory with non-alcoholic champagne, he reverts to his normal alcoholic self and escapes, stealing a jetpack. Homer wins by default and is selected for flight, but after watching an episode of Itchy and Scratchy involving space exploration. Just as they prepare to take off in the Corvair space shuttle and he talks with Marge on the phone, and she says that he ought to take advantage of the opportunity. He agrees, and the launch, which is also a Nielsen ratings smash, finally in space, Homer reveals he has smuggled potato chips on board. He opens the bag, but is unaware that, due to the effects of weightlessness, they spread around. His appetite seems to save the day as he floats after the chips, eating them, James Taylor comes in over the radio to sing Youve Got a Friend, but the disaster continues on board as the ants destroy the navigation system

Fox Broadcasting Company
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The Fox Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcast television network that is owned by the Fox Entertainment Group subsidiary of 21st Century Fox. It is the third largest major network in the world based on total revenues, assets. Launched on October 9,1986 as a competitor to the Big Three television networks, Fox and its affiliated c

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The Simpsons (season 4)
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The Simpsons fourth season originally aired on the Fox network between September 24,1992 and May 13,1993, beginning with Kamp Krusty. The showrunners for the production season were Al Jean and Mike Reiss. The aired season contained two episodes which were episodes from season three, which Jean and Reiss also ran. Following the end of the production

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The Simpsons (season 6)
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The Simpsons sixth season originally aired on the Fox network between September 4,1994, and May 21,1995, and consists of 25 episodes. The Simpsons is a series about a working class family, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa. The show is set in the city of Springfield, and lampoons American culture, society, television. The showrunner for th

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David Mirkin was showrunner for season six

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List of The Simpsons episodes
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The Simpsons is an American animated television sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company. It is a depiction of a middle class American lifestyle epitomized by its eponymous family, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa. The show is set in the town of Springfield, and lampoons American culture, society. The family was co

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The Simpsons
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The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series is a depiction of working-class life epitomized by the Simpson family, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa. The show is set in the town of Springfield and parodies American culture, society, television. The family was conceived b

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James L. Brooks (pictured) asked Matt Groening to create a series of animated shorts for The Tracey Ullman Show

David Mirkin
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David Mirkin is an American feature film and television director, writer and producer. Mirkin grew up in Philadelphia and intended to become an electrical engineer, after graduating, he became a stand-up comedian, and then moved into television writing. He wrote for the sitcoms Threes Company, Its Garry Shandlings Show and The Larry Sanders Show, a

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David Mirkin at the 2012 San Diego Comic-Con International.

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Mirkin created Get a Life alongside Chris Elliott, who was also the show's lead actor

Al Jean
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Alfred Ernest Al Jean III is an American screenwriter and producer. Jean is well known for his work on The Simpsons and he was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan and graduated from Harvard University in 1981. Jean began his career in the 1980s with fellow Harvard alum Mike Reiss. Together, they worked as writers and producers on television such a

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Al Jean at the 2010 Comic Con in San Diego

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Mike Reiss and Jean worked as show runners of The Simpsons together.

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Jean and former Simpsons executive producer David Mirkin at the 2007 Comic Con.

Mike Reiss
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Michael Mike L. Reiss is an American television comedy writer. He served as a show-runner, writer and producer for the animated series The Simpsons and he created and wrote the webtoon Queer Duck and has also worked on screenplays including, Ice Age, Dawn of the Dinosaurs, The Simpsons Movie and My Life in Ruins. Reiss was born to a Jewish family i

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Cape Feare
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Cape Feare is the second episode in the fifth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on October 7,1993, and has since been featured on DVD and VHS releases. Written by Jon Vitti and directed by Rich Moore, Cape Feare features the return of guest star Kelsey Grammer

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Kelsey Grammer voiced Sideshow Bob in the episode.

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Bob stays at the Bates Motel from the 1960 film Psycho.

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"Cape Feare" is the favorite episode of Simpsons cast member Hank Azaria.

Rosebud (The Simpsons)
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Rosebud is the fourth episode of The Simpsons fifth season. It first aired on the Fox network in the United States on October 21,1993, the episode begins by showing how on the eve of his birthday, Mr. Burns starts to miss his childhood teddy bear Bobo. The bear ends up in the hands of Maggie Simpson and Burns does everything in his power to get Bob

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Much of the episode is a parody of the Orson Welles film Citizen Kane

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Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song
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Sweet Seymour Skinners Baadasssss Song is the 19th episode of The Simpsons fifth season. The 100th episode of the overall, it originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on April 28,1994. In the episode, Superintendent Chalmers fires Principal Seymour Skinner after a disaster at the school, Bart Simpson, feeling partially responsible f

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Bill Oakley wrote the episode along with Josh Weinstein.

Annie Award
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The Annie Award is an American award for accomplishments in animation. The Annies have been presented by the Los Angeles branch of the International Animated Film Association, originally designed to celebrate lifetime or career contributions to animation, since 1992 it has given awards to individual films. Memberships in the ASIFA-Hollywood consist

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Genesis Awards
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Presented by the HSUS Hollywood Outreach program, the awards show takes place every March in California. The awards have honored such well-known personalities as Aaron Sorkin, Anderson Cooper, Peter Gabriel, Ellen DeGeneres, Jane Goodall, Michael Jackson, David E. The Genesis Awards were founded as an event in 1986 by the Broadway actress. Wyler be

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Gretchen Wyler, founder of the Genesis awards, with The HSUS supporters at the 20th Annual Genesis Awards at the Beverly Hilton in March 2006

DVD region code
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This is achieved by way of region-locked DVD players, which will play back only DVDs encoded to their region. The American DVD Copy Control Association also requires that DVD player manufacturers incorporate the regional-playback control system, however, region-free DVD players, which ignore region coding, are also commercially available, and many

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The Simpsons (season 1)
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The Simpsons first season originally aired on the Fox network between December 17,1989 and May 13,1990, beginning with the Christmas special Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire. The executive producers for the first production season were Matt Groening, James L. Brooks, the producers considered aborting the series if the next episode turned out as ba

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The Simpsons creator Matt Groening

Sam Simon
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While at Stanford University, Simon worked as a newspaper cartoonist and after graduating became a storyboard artist at Filmation Studios. Simon submitted a script for the sitcom Taxi, which was produced. Over the next few years, Simon wrote and produced for Cheers, Its Garry Shandlings Show and other programs, in 1989, Simon developed the animated

Jeff Martin (writer)
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Jeff Martin is an American television producer and writer. He was a writer for The Simpsons during the first five seasons and he attended Harvard University, where he wrote for The Harvard Lampoon, as have many other Simpsons writers. He left along with most of the staff in 1993. Baby Blues and Homeboys in Outer Space, Martin won four Emmys during

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Jeff Martin in 1994.

The Critic
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The Critic is an American prime time animated series revolving around the life of New York film critic Jay Sherman, voiced by actor Jon Lovitz. It was created by writing partners Al Jean and Mike Reiss, the Critic had 23 episodes produced, first broadcast on ABC in 1994, and finishing its original run on Fox in 1995. According to PopMatters, the cr

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The Simpsons (season 13)
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The Simpsons thirteenth season originally aired on the Fox network between November 6,2001 and May 22,2002 and consists of 22 episodes. The show runner for the production season was Al Jean who executive-produced 17 episodes. Mike Scully executive-produced the remaining five, which were all hold-overs that were produced for the previous season, the

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George Meyer
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George A. Meyer is an American producer and writer. Meyer is best known for his work on The Simpsons, where he led the group script rewrite sessions and he has been publicly credited with thoroughly shap. the comedic sensibility of the show. Raised in Tucson, Meyer attended Harvard University, there, after becoming president of the Harvard Lampoon,

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Meyer in 1992

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Sam Simon hired Meyer for The Simpsons after being impressed by Army Man.

John Swartzwelder
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John Joseph Swartzwelder, Jr. is an American comedy writer and novelist, best known for his work on the animated television series The Simpsons. Born in Seattle, Washington, Swartzwelder began his working in advertising. He was later hired to work on comedy series Saturday Night Live in the mid-1980s as a writer and he later contributed to fellow w

Conan O'Brien
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Conan Christopher OBrien is an American television host, comedian, and television producer. He is best known for hosting several talk shows, since 2010 he has hosted Conan on the cable channel TBS. OBrien was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, and was raised in an Irish Catholic family and he served as president of The Harvard Lampoon while attendin

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O'Brien at the 2015 San Diego Comic-Con International.

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O'Brien in the offices of The Simpsons writers, 1992

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O'Brien in Atlanta, Georgia, June 2010

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O'Brien performing in a replica of the costume Eddie Murphy wore in Eddie Murphy Raw

Bill Oakley
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Bill Oakley is an American television writer and producer, known for his work on the animated comedy series The Simpsons. Oakley and Josh Weinstein became best friends and writing partners at high school and he worked on several short-term media projects, including writing for the variety show Sunday Best, but was then unemployed for a long period.

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Oakley in 2008

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Oakley (left) along with Weinstein, Mike Reiss and Jeff Martin in 1994.

Josh Weinstein
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Josh Weinstein is an American television writer and producer, known for his work on the animated comedy series The Simpsons. Weinstein and Bill Oakley became best friends and writing partners at St. Albans High School and he worked on several short-term media projects, including writing for the variety show Sunday Best, but was then unemployed for

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Josh Weinstein in 2013

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Weinstein in 1994

NBC
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The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcast television network that is the flagship property of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast. The network is part of the Big Three television networks, founded in 1926 by the Radio Corporation of America, NBC is the oldest major broadcast network in the United States. Following the

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The Comcast Building in New York City (or the GE Building, originally the RCA Building) serves as the headquarters of NBC.

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Radio City West was located at Sunset Boulevard and Vine Street in Los Angeles until it was replaced by a bank in the mid-1960s.

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Entrance at the GE Building.

Late Night with Conan O'Brien
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Late Night with Conan OBrien is an American late-night talk show hosted by Conan OBrien that aired 2,725 episodes on NBC between 1993 and 2009. The show featured varied comedic material, celebrity interviews, and musical, Late Night aired weeknights at 12,37 am Eastern/11,37 pm Central and 12,37 am Mountain in the United States. From 1993 until 200

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O'Brien poking fun at the show's new HDTV widescreen format

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O'Brien interviewing U2 on Late Night

Homer Goes to College
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Homer Goes to College is the third episode of The Simpsons fifth season. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on October 14,1993, in the episode, Homers lack of a college degree is revealed and he is sent to Springfield University to pass a nuclear physics class. Homer, who bases his perception of college on comedy films and

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"Homer Goes to College" was the final episode of the show for which Conan O'Brien received a sole writing credit.

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Homer has a poster of comedian W. C. Fields

Bart Gets Famous
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Bart Gets Famous is the twelfth episode of The Simpsons fifth season. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on February 3,1994, in the episode, Bart gets a job as Krusty the Clowns production assistant. However, he becomes sick of the job and comes close to quitting. During one of his shows, Krusty says he needs to use Bart in

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Former writer Conan O'Brien returned to the show to guest star as himself.

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"Bart Gets Famous"

Greg Daniels
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Gregory Martin Greg Daniels is an American television comedy writer, producer, and director. He is known for his work on television series, including Saturday Night Live, The Simpsons, King of the Hill. All four shows were named among Times James Poniewoziks All Time 100 TV Shows, Daniels attended Harvard University and he became friends with Conan

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Greg Daniels

Mike Scully
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Michael Mike Scully is an American television writer and producer. He is known for his work as producer and showrunner of the animated sitcom The Simpsons from 1997 to 2001. Scully grew up in West Springfield, Massachusetts and long had an interest in writing and he was an underachiever at school and dropped out of college, going on to work in a se

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Mike Scully at the 2011 San Diego Comic-Con

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Scully in July 2007, at the premiere of The Simpsons Movie in Springfield, Vermont

Lisa's Rival
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Lisas Rival is the second episode of The Simpsons sixth season. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on September 11,1994 and it was the first episode to be written by Mike Scully, and was directed by Mark Kirkland. Winona Ryder guest stars as Allison Taylor, a new student at Springfield Elementary School, Lisa Simpson begins

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This was the first episode to be written by Mike Scully.

Homer Loves Flanders
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Homer Loves Flanders is the sixteenth episode of The Simpsons fifth season. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on March 17,1994, in the episode, Ned Flanders invites Homer to a football game and the two become good friends. However, Ned soon grows weary of Homers overbearing friendship and stupid antics, the episode was wri

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A reference is made in the episode to Edward G. Robinson 's character Dathan from the 1956 film The Ten Commandments.

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"Homer Loves Flanders" was the last episode to be pitched by Conan O'Brien before he left the show.

Homer's Barbershop Quartet
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Homers Barbershop Quartet is the first episode of The Simpsons fifth season. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on September 30,1993, the episode was written by Jeff Martin and directed by Mark Kirkland. It features the Be Sharps, a quartet founded by Homer Simpson. The bands story roughly parallels that of The Beatles, Geo

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Jeff Martin, a fan of The Beatles, wrote the episode.

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"Homer's Barbershop Quartet"

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The Dapper Dans, a barbershop quartet, provided the singing voices of The Be Sharps in the episode.

George Harrison
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George Harrison, MBE was an English guitarist, singer, songwriter, and music and film producer who achieved international fame as the lead guitarist of the Beatles. Although most of the Beatles songs were written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney and his songs for the group included Taxman, Within You Without You, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Here

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Harrison at the White House in 1974

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Harrison's first home and place of birth – 12 Arnold Grove

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Harrison at a press conference in the Netherlands in 1964

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Harrison (third from left) with the other Beatles in New York City in 1964

National Lampoon's Animal House
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National Lampoons Animal House is a 1978 American comedy film from Universal Pictures. It was produced by Ivan Reitman and Matty Simmons, directed by John Landis, and stars John Belushi, Tim Matheson, John Vernon, Verna Bloom, Thomas Hulce, and Donald Sutherland. The film, a direct spin-off from National Lampoon, is about a group of fraternity memb

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Theatrical release poster designed by Rick Meyerowitz

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Plaque at the site where the house used to portray the Delta House formerly stood

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Otis Day and the Knights sang Shama Lama Ding Dong at the Dexter Lake Club

Kelsey Grammer
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Allen Kelsey Grammer is an American actor, voice actor, comedian, producer, director, writer, singer, and activist. Grammer is known for his portrayal of psychiatrist Dr. Frasier Crane on the NBC sitcoms Cheers. Grammer has been married four times and has seven children, Grammer was two years old when his parents divorced. Grammer attended Pine Cre

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Kelsey Grammer, May 2010

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Grammer during Fleet Week in New York City, in May 2006

Sideshow Bob
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Robert Underdunk Terwilliger, Jr. Ph. D. better known as Sideshow Bob, is a recurring character in the animated television series The Simpsons. He is voiced by Kelsey Grammer and first appeared briefly in the episode The Telltale Head, Bob is a self-proclaimed genius who is a graduate of Yale University, a member of the Republican Party, and a cham

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Kelsey Grammer based Bob's voice on his experiences with actor Ellis Rabb.

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Sideshow Bob in his brief first appearance in "The Telltale Head". His design was simple compared to later versions and would be refined for his appearance in "Krusty Gets Busted".

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Sideshow Bob's brother Cecil was designed to resemble actor David Hyde Pierce, who also played the brother of Grammer's character on the show Frasier.

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Actress Nancy Cartwright, the voice of Bart Simpson, said in her book My Life as a 10-Year-Old Boy that Grammer's performance brings "deliciously vile energy" to the show.

Rake (tool)
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Large mechanized versions of rakes are used in farming, called hay rakes, are built in many different forms. Non-mechanized farming may be done with various forms of a hand rake, modern hand-rakes usually have steel, plastic, or bamboo teeth or tines, though historically they have been made with wood or iron. The handle is made of wood or metal. So

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Wooden hand-rake

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A heavy-duty "bow rake" for soil and rocks

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A light-duty "leaf rake" for leaves and grass

Deep Space Homer
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Deep Space Homer is the fifteenth episode of The Simpsons fifth season. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on February 24,1994, in the episode, NASA is concerned by the decline in public interest in space exploration, and therefore decides to send an ordinary person into space. Homer is selected and chaos ensues when the sy

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"Deep Space Homer" is the only episode credited as being written by David Mirkin.

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In a reference to Tennessee Williams 's most famous plays, Smithers is shown in a flashback to have split up with his wife because he devoted too much time to his boss Mr. Burns, causing his sexual orientation to come into question.

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Forest Hills High School, attended by the four original members of the Ramones

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April 1976 issue of Punk. The cover image of Joey, by Punk cofounder John Holmstrom, was inspired by the work of comic book artist Will Eisner. Holmstrom would go on to do album art for Rocket to Russia and Road to Ruin.